REINCARNATION

 REINCARNATION

 

Around the Year with Emmet Fox

 

June 28

 

Have you ever asked yourself why there should be

such a difference between one human lot and another?

Have you ever wondered why some people,

seem to be so happy and fortunate in their lives,

while others appear to undergo

so much undeserved suffering?

To the honest and fearless soul,

the problem of the inequality of human lives

is one that clamors for solution.

Men and women are not born free and equal.

They are created free and equal,

but they are not born free and equal.

They start this life like horses in a handicap race—

no two bearing an equal burden.

Now, why should this be, if indeed God is Love,

and if God is just, and if God is all-powerful?

The answer is that this life that you are living today

is not the only life,

and that it cannot be understood or judged by itself.

You have lived before, in different ages

and in different civilizations.

Some of those who are at the bottom

of the social ladder today

have walked the earth as kings,

 and generals, and high priests;

and some who now sit in the seats

of the mighty have toiled as peasants,

or worn the chains of the slave.

And you, yourself, in future ages,

will very likely return to this earth planet

and live out another life.

The conditions under which you start that life

will be the outcome of the lives you have already lived;

but most particularly will they be the outcome of the life

that you are living at the present.

What is customarily called a lifetime is really

but a comparatively brief day in a long, long life,

and the circumstances into which you were born

are the natural outcome of the way in which

you have lived and comported yourself in your former lives.

You are reaping today the results of the seeds

that you have sown during these many previous lives.

“He which soweth sparingly

shall reap also sparingly,

and he which soweth bountifully

shall reap also bountifully”

2 Corinthians 9:6