"I ask you neither for health nor for sickness, for life nor for death; but that you may dispose of my health and my sickness, my life and my death, for your glory...You alone know what is expedient for me; you are the sovereign master; do with me according to your will. Give to me, or take away from me, only conform my will to yours. I know but one thing, Lord, that it is good to follow you, and bad to offend you. Apart from that, I know not what is good or bad in anything. I know not which is most profitable to me, health or sickness, wealth or poverty, nor anything else in the world. That discernment is beyond the power of men or angels, and is hidden among the secrets of your Providence, which I adore, but do not seek to fathom."
A Prayer by Blaise Pascal taken from Philip Yancey's
Sometimes...probably most times...we cannot explain the suffering in our lives. Naturally we ask why? And we struggle through a process only to reach a place where we finally understand that we simply cannot understand. And that is enough.
"The secret things belong to the LORD our God . . . " (Deuteronomy 29:29).
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