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Excerpt: The foresight and care of God concerning all His creatures is a truth which circumstances seem, at times, to dispute. So impenetrable are the dark clouds that sometimes surround us, so heavy and crushing the blows which fall upon us; so swift and unexpected the lightning flash that blasts and withers our hopes, and, what is more mysterious than all, and often more staggering, so unnecessary and undeserved seems the waste of joy and life that we are at times sorely tempted to doubt whether God is mindful of His creatures or has any real interest in them. Or, we wonder, if He has, does He possess any power to mitigate these unrelieved calamities? We are tempted to argue that we should be only too willing to shield our children from suffering which God allows to come upon His own.
Is there any explanation of this mystery? When we see hundreds and thousands of lives sacrificed as the result of what appears to be a mere freak of nature, or when we see a young man of great ability and usefulness cut down in early life, when we contemplate cruelty — so often allied with power — allowed to work havoc in peaceful homes, and when we behold the innocent suffering with, and sometimes for, the guilty, how can we reconcile all this with the belief in a God who is infinitely holy, just and merciful?
In endeavoring to answer these difficulties, it is no use pretending that they do not exist, or that there is no mystery after all. The mystery is there, and always will be there, in one sense, but it need not be a mystery that blinds or stupefies us, but one which leads to a deeper faith in God.
Table of Contents
The Universe Is in Disorder 4
How Do We Wait for God? 7
The Bible Never Questions God's Goodness 10
God's Purpose for Good 14
The Chief Reason to Trust God 17