There are
three parts to the plan. You are in the second or the middle part, the one in
which you will be tested by temptation, by trials, perhaps by tragedy.
Remember
this! The line, “And they all lived happily ever after” is never written into
the second act of a play. That line belongs in the third act, when the
mysteries are solved and everything is put right.
Until you
have a broad perspective of the eternal nature of the plan, you won’t make much
sense out of the inequities in life. Some are born with so little and others
with so much. Some are born into poverty, with handicaps, and pain, with
suffering. Some experience premature death, even innocent children. There are
the brutal, unforgiving forces of nature and the brutality of man to man. We
have seen a lot of that lately.
Do not
suppose that God willfully causes that which, for his own purposes, he permits.
When you know the plan and the purpose of it all, even these things will
manifest a loving Father in Heaven.
President
Boyd K. Packer, Satellite Broadcast, May 7, 1995
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