We know that all things work together for good for those who are called according to God’s purpose, but that doesn’t mean every step is going to feel good. It means that one day it will be revealed as ultimate good, and sometimes we must trust that the answer to “why” isn’t clean and easy, but the reason will be made known in glory. It’s in response to this very difficulty that we remember a stanza from a favorite hymn. May this be our prayer. It goes, “whate’er my God ordains is right, here shall my stand be taken. Though sorrow, need, or death be mine, yet I am not forsaken. My Father’s care is ‘round me there, he holds me that I shall not fall; and so to him I leave it all.”
