AR 6:48{In perplexities: when we cannot understand what is going on around us, cannot tell whither events are tending, cannot tell what to do, because we cannot see into or through the matter before us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him. If He chooses to guide us blindfold, let Him do it! It will not make the least difference to the reality and rightness of the guidance. In mysteries: when we see no clue, when we cannot understand God's partial revelation, when we cannot lift the veil that hangs before His secret counsel, when we cannot pierce the holy darkness that enshrouds His ways, or tread the great deep of His judgments where His footsteps are not known, is it not enough that even these matters are not hid from our King? "My Father will do nothing, either great or small, but He will show it me." "For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth Him all things that Himself doeth." Our King could so easily reveal everything to us, make everything so clear! It would be nothing to Him to tell us all our questions. When He does not, cannot we trust Him, and just be satisfied that He knows, and would tell us if it were best? He has many things to say unto us, but He waits till we can bear them. May we be glad that even our sins are not hid from Him? Yes, surely, for He who knows all, can and will cleanse all. He has searched us and known us, as we should shrink from knowing ourselves, and yet He has pardoned, and yet He loves!
Not yet thou knowest how 1 bid each passing hour entwine
Its grief or joy, its hope or fear, in one great love-design;
Nor how I lead thee through the night, by many a various way,
Still upward to unclouded light, and onward to the day.