I asked like Job. But get a different answer!

I asked like Job. But get a different answer! - a prose

Dan:12:10

Many will be purified, cleansed and refined by these trials.

Oh! Why these trials keep coming back?

Why these struggles keep finding me?

Why does a good God allow pain?

And tears and loneliness and sleepless nights

And lost appetite and sickness and helplessness

Why should trials be part of anyone's life?

Why should they torment me?

Wasn't life better off without those fangs

That pierce deep into my flesh

Tearing me apart, leaving me wounded and crying

Yet not taking my life from me

Dragging me along. Why should I carry the burden?

Life seems light for others. But for me it's heavy

I kept asking him questions.

One day He finally answered

Sin has marred your character

I had created you pure and blemishless

But the born nature and your own choices

Distorted and crippled and contorted you

Yet, I want you back the way I created you

For which you need to be refined

Impurities can be removed and cleansed

Only by letting you go through fire

Yes, it's painful for me too

To see you go through this.

Painful, yet worth it

Will you trust me blindly, without pain?

Will you have faith as a mustard seed

Unless you have nothing else to cling to?

Will you persevere, unless you're helpless?

Will you learn to love unless you have the unlovable?

Will you cling to me alone

Unless your friends desert you?

Will you learn patience and to control you anger

Unless you go through these rugged paths

Character is not formed as a miracle

But as a process where

You go through these unforseen circumstances

Which will mould you and form a new you

A 'you' which I desired for your good

Though painful. Isn't it worth it?

When you look at it from above?

Trust me! I'm good and and I do all things good.

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