Fw: Good or Bad Hard To Say

heard a good story from a friend today...

Once upon a time, there was a king.
The king liked one of his
followers very much because he was very wise and
always gave
very useful advice. Therefore the king took him along wherever
he went.

One day, the king was bitten by a dog, the finger was
injured and the
wound was getting worse. He asked the follower if that
was a bad sign.
The follower said, 'Good or bad, hard to say'. In the end,
finger of the king
was too bad that had to be cut. The king asked the
follower again if
that was a bad sign. Again, the follower gave the
same answer,
'Good or bad, hard to say'. The king became very angry and
sent the follower to prison.

One day, the king went hunting in
the jungle. He got excited when he was
on the chase of a deer. Deeper and
deeper he went inside the jungle. In the
end he found himself lost in the
jungle. To make things worse, he got
captured by the native people who
lived inside the jungle. They wanted to
sacrifice him to their god. But when
they noticed that the king had one
finger short, they released him
immediately as he was not a perfect man
anymore and not suitable for
sacriface. The king managed to get back to
his palace after all.

And he finally understood the follower's wise quote, 'Good or bad,
hard to say'. If he hadn't lost one finger, he could have been killed by
the native people. He ordered to release the follower, and apologized
to him.
But to the king's amazement, the follower was not mad at him at all.
Instead,the
follower said, 'It wasn't a bad thing that you locked me up.'
Why? Because if the king hadn't locked the follower up, he would
have
brought the follower along to the jungle. If the native found that
the king
was not suitable, they would have used the follower.
Again, the quote 'Good
or bad, hard to say' stands.

The moral of the story is that
everything that happens in this world,
there is no absolute good or bad.
Sometimes good things turned out to be bad
things eventually, while bad
things become a gain.
Whatever good things that happen to you, enjoy it, but
don't
have to hold too tight to it, treat it as a surprise in your
life.
Whatever bad things that happen to you, don't have to feel too
sad or
despair, in the end, it might not be a total bad thing after all.
If one can
understand this, he or she will find life much easier.


And we know that God causes all things to work together
for good
to those who love God, to those who are called according to
His
purpose. Rom 8:28