The heart that loves God discerns Him busily at work in even the most heartbreaking and unwelcome happenings of life. All things are turning out for the best because God is at work in them, transmuting bane into blessing and tragedy into triumph. His operation is not always clearly discernible. Indeed it not infrequently seems that He is doing nothing. Carlyle, meditating on the enigmas of life, in the anguish of his heart said, "The worst of God is that He does nothing."
But God is often most active when all seems most still. The working of God in nature is unseen but nonetheless effective. Under His invisible control the stars maintain their predestined courses and the restless ocean keeps within its appointed limits. We should never, in impatience at the seeming inactivity of God, take things into our own hands and try to be our own Providence.
The daily happenings, whether tragic or joyous, are the raw material from which God is weaving the design of life. Introduce God into the events of life, and order emerges from chaos. He is too kind to do anything cruel, too wise ever to make a mistake. No conceivable circumstances could better prosper God's plan or further our highest good.
- J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Maturity
God is too wise to be mistaken
God is too good to be unkind
So when you don't understand
When you don't see His plan
When you can't trace His hand
Trust His heart
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