The Paradoxes Contained Herein

One of the biggest misinterpretations known to the human lot is the wanton tendency (which we all invariably evince) to judge a matter, or a person, by outward appearance. Scarcely a day will pass in our lives with which we don't make droves of miscalculations based on our own thinking and subjective apparatus. Whether we are comparing ourselves with other persons, or we are gauging our own personal view of our life's trajectory, whether we are weighing certain advice to dispense to a given person, we can by pattern understand that, at any given moment of analysis, we are formidably limited by subjective noumena which preclude us from fully understanding the ultimate perpetuity of any given situation.

Moreover, regardless of how we view a situation's immediate outworking, be it viewed in a positive or negative light, we all know that, from day to day, our vantage point will ineluctably fluctuate in this area also. During one day's analysis, we may well find cognitive glee over the apparent personal "victory" we see within some context or situation; but before the arrival of the next 24 hour day, the very same situation may suddenly display other details which undercut our previous persuasion that the so-called victory was in effect.

This type of racquetball game, vis a vis all the interwoven concerns in our complex lives, is part and parcel as to why Jesus proclaimed, through the mouthpiece of the Apostle James:

Consider it pure joy, my brethren, when you go through trials of many kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking in anything. (James 1:1,2)

My prayer for you, earnest sojourner, is that you embrace your current scourge with spiritual eyes:
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths.