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Adversity provides us with an opportunity to developour character in a natural, recurring and powerful way thatonly the challenges of adversity offer. According to Solomon,adversity refines and reveals the gold and silver of ourcharacter.
A lot of times adversity comes our way as a direct orindirect result of our own actions. We make a bad choice ora bad decision, or we simply fail to do something we shouldhave done. When I made bad investment decisions, I had toaccept responsibility for my greed and naive choices. Yes,several men had misrepresented the opportunities to me, butthe fact is, I am the one who made the decisions. And Iexperienced the very consequences, that Solomon hadcautioned us about. Any time you make a contribution toyour own adversity, you need to accept responsibility for it.Don’t simply blame someone or something else.
Nonetheless, throughout our lives we will experience agreat deal of adversity that is not a result of our own actions.It is critically important that we do not assign fault toourselves or to those who had nothing to do with it. Whena friend of mine lost his daughter to leukemia, he confidedto me that he felt God was punishing him for his past sins.In other words, he was blaming himself. It is believed thatadversity sometimes has a purpose that we cannot know orunderstand. As tempting as it may be, to try to figure outsuch a mystery is not only an exercise in futility, it isfoolish also.
Directions (Q. No. 97 to 105) :
Read the passage givenbelow and answer the questions that follow by selecting themost appropriate option.Adversity provides us with an opportunity to developour character in a natural, recurring and powerful way thatonly the challenges of adversity offer. According to Solomon,adversity refines and reveals the gold and silver of ourcharacter.
A lot of times adversity comes our way as a direct orindirect result of our own actions. We make a bad choice ora bad decision, or we simply fail to do something we shouldhave done. When I made bad investment decisions, I had toaccept responsibility for my greed and naive choices. Yes,several men had misrepresented the opportunities to me, butthe fact is, I am the one who made the decisions. And Iexperienced the very consequences, that Solomon hadcautioned us about. Any time you make a contribution toyour own adversity, you need to accept responsibility for it.Don’t simply blame someone or something else.
Nonetheless, throughout our lives we will experience agreat deal of adversity that is not a result of our own actions.It is critically important that we do not assign fault toourselves or to those who had nothing to do with it. Whena friend of mine lost his daughter to leukemia, he confidedto me that he felt God was punishing him for his past sins.In other words, he was blaming himself. It is believed thatadversity sometimes has a purpose that we cannot know orunderstand. As tempting as it may be, to try to figure outsuch a mystery is not only an exercise in futility, it isfoolish also.
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