Day 5: Seeing Life from God's View

Didn't read this last night because it was late so I'll read two chapters today!

Thoughts
Liking this book more and more. I find it particularly amazing how God has actually managed to align what I'm studying with what this chapter says. It's so fascinating, like God has written me in a book and these coincidences are just part of the plot for me - which is true, isn't it?
Life on Earth is a Test. God will test me by "major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism and even senseless tragedies." Sometimes he will pull away from me to 'see what is really in my heart'.
It makes me feel all the more thankful and grateful for Willow's survival. I know that as time goes by it just becomes a fact of life, but the fact that he is still here with us is truly a miracle. Tonight I pray thanks to Him for that, because I know if (God forbid. Literally) Willow had actually passed away, all our lives would be so different.
Life on Earth is a Trust. The more I have, the more He will demand from me; the more he entrusts in me, the more he will ask. Nothing I have is truly mine; it is only something I get to briefly enjoy and then pass away.

I like this idea, somehow, because it aligns with my previously inchoate thoughts that our time on Earth really is so brief. It makes me feel more secure somehow to know/be told that this is His; I want to take even better care of the Earth now!

Difficulties
I don't think I like the way Warren has represented Eternity. It's all very vague (but then again I suppose it has to be). I think I just don't like the idea of having to go to Hell if I don't pass God's final 'Judgement Test'. Humm.