Divine Providence

1. Men as well as angels are in the Lord and the Lord in them according to their conjunction with Him, or, what is the same, according to their reception of love and wisdom from Him.
2. Each of them has a place allotted to him in the Lord, thus in heaven, according to the nature of the conjunction or the reception of Him.
3. Each in his place has a state of his own distinct from that of others and draws his portion from what is had in common according to his situation, function and need, quite as each part does in the human body.
4. Everyone is brought into his place by the Lord according to his life.
5. Every human being is introduced from infancy into this divine man whose soul and life is the Lord, and within it and not outside of it is led and taught from His divine love according to His divine wisdom; but as a man is not deprived of freedom, he can be led and taught only in the measure of his receptiveness as of himself.
6. Those who are receptive are conducted to their places through an infinite maze by winding paths, much as the chyle is carried through the mesentery and the lacteal vessels there to its cistern, and from this into the blood by the thoracic duct, and so to its place.
7. Those who are not receptive are parted from those within the divine man, as excrement and urine are removed from man. (Emanuel Swedenborg)

Although it may be difficult to believe by appearances alone, according to most spiritual teachings, everything that happens in the universe is ruled according to Divine Providence.

The Lord not only has power over our life in general but also in every particular detail.

We have the freedom to do as we choose but Divine Providence is continually leading us away from evil and into the good and peace of Heaven.

This means that everything that is happening in our own life, no matter how devastating it may seem to us, is designed for our own good.

Some of us do not understand God's ways because we do not know the purpose of the universe or our own life.

In fact, the difficulties that seem to come our way may be diverting us from some evil path.

This is essentially why we must understand the law of non-resistance and accept whatever is happening in our life.

Most obstacles that we seem to encounter in our outer life are often a projection of an inner weakness that we must overcome in our character.