Living in God's Glory

WHY CALAMITIES BEFALL MAN man planned to reform defective systems of living by making the optional use of human and physical resources, communism being one such attempt, but such ‘reforms’ had proved abortive, bringing more darkness than light to the human situation. Frustrated by these glaring defects in human existence, Koestler committed suicide. life cannot but appear meaningless to a man who has no conception of the afterlife, for the significance of the present world can be understood only in the context of our present life being followed by the hereafter. unless this notion is ever-present in the human consciousness, a descent into negativism is inevitable. in the face of an inexplicably hostile world, it is not surprising that the more sensitive souls feel pushed irrevocably toward suicide. WHY CALAMITIES BEFALL MAN Wise is the one who considers calamities as a warning of nature rather than senseless evil. One who interprets them as nature’s alarm system will humble himself before the Lord and mend his ways in the hope of inhabiting Paradise. The guard blows a whistle when a train is about to leave a station. This whistle aims to warn people of the train’s impending departure so that anyone still on the platform