Living in God's Glory

all and end-all and end in total frustration or discover the secret of a successful life by opening his mind to the next life in the hereafter and planning his present life accordingly. MAN’S TRIAL The price to be paid for success in the trial of life is the negation of self. A man can only discover universal truth by losing his sense of individual selfness. What a wonderful blessing the eyes of man are! When he closes them, he can see nothing. his whole world is clothed in darkness. There is a world that he cannot see, objects he cannot perceive. Then, an astonishing spectacle opens before him when he opens his eyes. Black can be distinguished from white. What moves appears to be moving, and what stands still is motionless in his sight. animate and inanimate appear for what they are. it is in this quality—the ability to distinguish between things—that man is unique. he can tell between right and wrong, light and darkness. he can see truth and falsehood for what they are. he can differentiate between what is proved by sound reason and what has no sound rational basis. Man’s uniqueness puts him in a critically testing position, for God is putting him to the test in his power of discretion.