 It is convenient to remind about the Chastisement of God4s justice, that socratic argument which says that committing injustice is worse than suffering from it, and even worse doing it with impunity... Punishment must have healing properties. In a similar way the dentist extracts us a molar tooth and comforts our health making and unavoidable pain, which is the prize we pay with the bill, the same way God4s chastisements must be our souls injustice elixirs, so that they must be looked at as one more act of His endless Mercy. It4s difficult to be accepted, but God has the power to reward and to punish, and does both things with love. This painful purge is necesary, as God want us to be clean and inmaculate at His presence. Anyway, all the fear that means to us the idea of chastisement is the just reflection of the horrible reality that sin is, that we won4t be ever able to imagine. Going back to the Genesis episode, figurative beginnig of Garabandal story, when we ate the fruit, we knew the evil which had been veiled to us before. God seems to be saying to us: Well, you ate the apple. Ok. Now you can eat all the apples you want; you will get bored of apples, but then, when you are not hungry, you will eat the branches, and you will end up eating the trunk and the roots, that is just the Cross. The same way that knowledge is for us, humans, gotten by experience, the evil one doesn4t just involve committing it (eating apples), but suffering from it. And although Christ, Who wished to be our model in all which was going to be our path on earth, knew it perfectly well, He, Who didn4t need it, nor He could deny Himself eating apples being equal to Wisdom, wished to suffer the evil for us to be our consolation when we had to suffer it, if we are not gifted with any special exemption as the Apostle John, which is always possible. So, don4t be afraid and that the Good Potter does what He has to do.
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