Life is often described as a roller-coaster, a thrill of highs and lows, but this comparison is only partially true. A roller-coaster is predictable, designed for entertainment, and ends exactly where it begins. But life is not entertainment; it is evolution. Its dips are not for excitement; they are for inner chiselling. Its curves are not for thrill; they are for testing one’s steadiness.
In this long pilgrimage of the soul, God is not a soft guardian who grants boons at the slightest cry. He is a strict taskmaster, a divine sculptor who sees the hidden form inside the raw stone. To bring that splendour out, He uses the chisel of circumstances and the hammer of time. Every testing moment is His silent way of asking, “Are you ready for the grace you seek? Can you hold the blessing without letting it break you?”
In the spiritual vision of our tradition, worthiness is not demanded by God, but awakened within us through effort. A seed does not become a tree because the sun pities it; it becomes a tree because it pushes, stretches, roots deep, and reaches high. Only then does sunlight nourish it. Similarly, God’s compassion is ever-present, but fruit is given only when the soil of the heart has been tilled by sincerity, discipline, and humility.
The saints say that God’s toughest tests come not to punish, but to prepare.
He withholds, not out of cruelty, but out of protection—
for an unripe mind collapses under the weight of gifts meant for the ripe.
Thus, life is not a carnival ride but a refining fire.
We do not win God’s grace through entitlement, but through inner expansion.
We do not become beneficiaries by demand, but by transformation.
When we finally reach that state of worthiness, we realise something beautiful:
God was never distant, never withholding.
He was shaping us, silently, unceasingly, into someone capable of receiving His infinite abundance.
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