But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. -Genesis 50:20

Turn your eye along the page of history, and see how mysterious God’s dealings have been. Who would conceive that a Joseph sold into Egypt would be the means of redeeming a whole people from famine? Who would suppose that when an enemy should come upon the land, it should be after all but the means of bringing glory to God? Who could imagine that a harlot’s blood should mingle with the genealogy from which came the great Messiah, the Shiloh of Israel? Who could have guessed much less could have compassed, the mighty scheme of God? Providence has always been a hidden thing.

“Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never failing skill,
He treasures up His bright designs,
And works His sov’reign will.”

And yet, beloved, you and I are always wanting to know what God is about… We want to know what will be the consequences…We cannot see in history that this world ever went a step backwards. God is ever moving it in its orbit; and it has always progressed even when it seemed retrograding… All things are working together for good; but what the things separately are doing, it would be impossible to explain. Yet, thou child of Adam, with thy finite intellect, art continually stopping to ask, “Why is this?”… but the Omnipotent Creator, the uncreated Eternal, cannot well explain Himself to mortals whom He hath created. We cannot understand Him. It is enough for us to know that His way always must be in darkness, and that we must never expect to see much in this world. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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