From Eliyahu
Consider this:
It's pretty normal to choose the easiest way
to do things. This is often a good thing to do, since the easy way can save
time, not to mention wear and tear. Doing things the easy way can also help
increase productivity by getting more done in a given period of time. All of
that is fine, so long as the easy way is also the right way.
Sometimes the easy way is not the right way.
Sometimes people get bored, or just want to be done, and they cut corners
that shouldn't be cut. Even worse, businesses or government officials do
this sometimes to make money. We've all read about construction companies
that fail to build a bridge or a building with the materials, time and
precautions required for safety. They get away with this by paying
kick-backs to inspectors or politicians, so they can do things the easy way,
the cheap way, the dangerous way, the crooked way. There have been major
structural failures of bridged, buildings and other projects all over the
world, involving hundreds of deaths, because people we trusted to do things
the right way, did them the easy way instead. Possible examples include the
Challenger Shuttle Disaster, the Morandi Bridge collapse in Italy, the
Grenfell Tower Fire in London, and the recent Champlain Towers condominium
collapse in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, USA. In all of these
instances a lot of people unnecessarily died gruesome deaths.
Dramatic disasters such as those listed are
really not the worst of the fallen tendency to do things the easy way when
they should be done the right way. Actually, the personal costs to the
masses of humanity of this behavior are beyond calculation, ruining millions
of lives, one person or one family at a time. Fallen human nature seems bent
on taking the easy way, to benefit or spare one's self at the cost of
others. A lot of the suffering of this world comes out of this.
Sadly, this same tendency often effects
believers, deterring them from doing the Divine Will, because His Way is the
narrow way, the harder way - not the easy way.
