Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Supposed Injustice Makes Sense with an Eternal Superimposition

 Supposed Injustice Makes Sense with an Eternal Superimposition.... what the crap do I mean by that? Well, why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to bad people? Why do some actions have good consequences while other good things perhaps have bad consequences? This is what I mean by the supposed injustice. However, I call it supposed based on the "eternal superimposition." Okay Shannon, what is an eternal superimposition? A superimposition is when something is laid on top of another to clearly display both images. Therefore, an eternal superimposition would be when your pain, sorrow and heartache in this world is still very visible on the other side, while also being blessed abundantly for those afflictions. 
This "injustice" is something I have struggled with ever since the accident. I was a great person, with great plans for the future and then my life went to hell in a handbasket. I have expressed different philosophies I have come up with over the course of the last 12 years. One such philosophy I expressed at my 2020 birthday devotional. This was the idea that something good or even great must be destroyed to become something better. I found scriptural evidence of this idea earlier this week. Jeremiah 1:10 reads "I have this day set thee…to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down (sound like the destruction? But then it follows saying…) to build, and to plant." Something better could not be created until everything was first destroyed. 
Furthermore, losing things that were so important to you at one time in your life feels like a weakness. Even getting profits of only this world is a weakness. However, God knows what He is doing. In Ether 12:27 -28 it says "bgive unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my cgrace is sufficient for all men that dhumble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make eweak things become strong unto them. Behold… I will show unto them that afaith, hope and charity bringeth unto me—the fountain of all brighteousness.” The righteousness in humbling oneself to the Lord provides an eternal perspective in this life. The eternal perspective helps us to feel at peace and endure the hard things with an understanding heart. Furthermore, we receive the ultimate joy in the hereafter, as verse 37 continues “And because thou hast seen thy bweakness thou shalt be made strong, even unto the sitting down in the place which I have prepared in the mansions of my Father.”  Since our weakness, challenges, hardships make us more reliant on the Savior, and draw us closer to Him, perhaps this realization gives us a more positive understanding of how they can bless our lives, not destroy them. 
While we only see things from a finite, mortal point of view, things are unjust. However, with that "eternal superimposition" all things are made more infinite and abundantly joyful than we can even fathom.