The Life We Searched For: Wisdom in the Creation

WISDOM IN THE CREATION

On 12 June 2009, I had a dream. I saw that a person was asking me something. During the conversation, he said, “If there is a God, and God has created the world, why is there so much suffering in our lives?”

I remember this question in the dream, but I do not recall its answer. Still, I will say that the different calamities we face in the life of this world are not misfortunes. In terms of their reality, they are challenges. They awaken the human mind. They activate man’s intellectual and practical powers. These events are a positive experience, not something negative for us.

According to God’s Creation Plan, many things have been created in potential form. Along with this, man has been given an extraordinary mind. Man’s task is to use his mental abilities and convert what is potential into actual.

If life were structured so that man faced no problems, there would be no upheavals in his life. No storm would ruffle his existence. Such a man would be a stagnant person. But this is not nature’s plan for man. What man must do is face realities, use the ups and downs of life for the positive construction of his personality, activate the possibilities hidden in his being and make unfavourable events favourable to him. A person who does this may have been born an ordinary person, but he will become extraordinary.