“He Maketh His Sun to Rise on the Evil and on the Good”
Like any parent God loves all his children, all mankind even those who choose to forsake him and his ways. “The Savior’s expression in the Sermon on the Mount about the impartial and widespread provision of sun and rain (see Matthew 5:45) might also be applied to the unselective nature of mortal misfortune.... There is no question that God created, governs, and controls all things-our lives included. But through his creative powers, laws and principles of nature associated with mortality were also established on this earth and set in motion. These laws not only provide great blessings and happiness for his children in mortality but also are a source of opposition necessary for the plan of salvation to fully operate. It is not to be thought, therefore, that everything of an adverse nature that happens in this life was directly willed and/or caused by God. We must allow for the natural occurrences in life, even if they provide us with pain and suffering.” (Brent L. Top, Strength to Endure, p. 29; see also Teachings, pp. 162-63.)
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