Apr
30
2010
Are You Confused, Offended, or Bitter About God’s Dealings with You?
Read this slowly and repeatedly.
“All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended, and sometimes amazed, which we could neither reconcile with the promise nor with each other, nay, which we so unjustly censured and bitterly bewailed, as if they had fallen out quite against our happiness, we shall then see to be to us, as the difficult passage through the wilderness was to Israel, ‘the right way to a city of habitation’ (Ps. 107:7).”
By the very things that seem to bring us so much unhappiness and difficulty, God may be leading us directly to the heavenly city, purifying us for a happier enjoyment of that eternal habitation. Think about it.
John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence, p. 22.