If your human history and mine had been written down, how might they read? There would probably be a series of events that included some highs and some lows. We might find that certain opportunities were fulfilled but that others appeared foreclosed because of what had gone before. We might be tempted to say, "Well, what I've done has brought me where I am; I guess I'll just have to live with it."
Would these human records be faithful accounts of man's life as the reflection of divine Life, God? Is an earthly chronicle the proper account, or can we look at our history from a higher, a spiritual, standpoint?
We learn in the very first chapter of the Bible that man is created "in the image of God" in a creation where everything is "very good." We may be convinced we've had a hard time over something —say, for instance, getting along with other people. But is that what God knows of man? No, it isn't. In His all-embracing love He knows, and therefore allows for, no animosity among His children. Looking at our history from this higher standpoint— in terms of what God truly knows and has established—we can find healing and thus overcome the false sense of our history. To accept discord as unavoidable would be to make a mockery of God's love.
