God is like a loving and doting parent who would deny you the evening snack because he doesn’t want you to spoil your appetite for the fantastic dinner he has planned for you (and not to mention the dessert…)
But the spoilt children as we are .. we throw a tantrum, accusing God of being unjust, not loving us enough blah blah. It is only when we are served the amazing dinner that we realise what he had planned for us.
My all time fav Richard Bach quote summarises this so beautifully –
“The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly”
Reflections 