If we would draw near — as much as we possibly can — to the true meaning of anything we read in the Scriptures or experience in life, here’s a principle that I think must serve as our guide. We have to think the matter through until it becomes as clear to us as it can be that — within the enormous amount of latitude God has given us (and all sentient creatures) to do as we please — God is always being as helpful as helpfulness can possibly be. Always.
That principle rests on this truth: God — by virtue of his own nature — never helps any person less or more than he does anyone else in seeking each person’s highest good. That goes for all the Hitlers and Mother Teresas of the world, past and present.
Notice how such absolute divine helpfulness makes each one of us fully responsible for how we react what comes our way. We can either open up to God’s help and increasingly benefit from it or we can progressively shut it out of our hearts.
When in eternity we see all the variables involved in each person’s heart and circumstances we will instantly realize that — one by one — there is no way God could have done anything more helpful for anyone.
Then everyone will receive precisely what they want. They will either keep opening up to more of God’s influence or close their hearts more and more to it. In the words of Scripture, each one will enter into greater blessedness or, tragically, into a deepening accursed condition.
