Grate

Should we be grateful to God during times of difficulty?

If someone gives you $100, and then the next day, takes back $10, would you be angry at them? The concept should be similar. Existence and everything we have is something, rather than nothing, so it generally equates to positives gifted. I explained more detail of the concept of positives, in a post from a couple months ago; Positron. If we lose some positives, or lack some positives, it seems irrational to be angry, or upset, or complain that we should have more positives. 

Why should anyone deserve any positives to begin with, or be entitled to positives? Existence is the base gift, where otherwise you would not be. There’s no reason to think we deserve additional positives. We all do bad things in life, so assuming you should get more positives defies logic. It’s a common perspective to feel entitled to have a lot in life, when noticing what others have. But just because someone else has a higher quantity of positives, doesn't mean they, or you, or anyone is entitled to those positives. 

If you compare your positives to others with more, you should also compare yourself to those with less. Most people in the past have had less opportunity for positives, with a lack of healthcare for living longer and more comfortably, for the individuals themselves, and for friends and family of the individual. With a lack of technology, most people in the past lacked the ease of accomplishing tasks, and the quality of comfort. With the lack of organized society, and knowledgeable understanding in the past, they lacked as much freedom and security. Beyond that, if initial existence is considered a positive, then that can be compared to the (nearly?) infinite quantity of people who could possibly exist, yet don't, and lack that positive. If comparison was your measure to perceive how much positives you have, then its a few who have more, and infinite who have less. By comparison, existence is infinitely better than lack thereof. 

Regarding the few who have more; is God to blame for the inequality? Assuming we all have free will, everyone who has more positives, has the free will to distribute their positives more equally to those who have less. Based on the bible, distributing positives to others seems to be a major suggestion from God. If we defy that suggestion, by the use of free will, we are the ones to blame. Free will is a component of the base positive gift of existence, and conscious awareness, which makes existence relevant. Without the option for people to deny God's suggestions, means without free will, which means without the relevance of existence, and without any positives to begin with. 

Any times that we have in life, of difficulty and a lack of positives, shouldn’t be reason to blame God or be ungrateful. Those positives which we have received, no matter how few, are virtually infinitely greater than lack thereof. Some positive, rather than none, seems it should always be something to relate to Grate.