“You cannot distrust God, and not accuse him of a want either of power or of goodness; you cannot repine—no, not even in thought—without virtually telling him that his plans are not the best, nor his dispensations the wisest, which might have been appointed in respect of yourselves. So that your fear, or your despondency, or your anxiety in circumstances of perplexity, or of peril, is nothing less than a call upon God to depart from his fixed course,--a suspicion, or rather an assertion that he might proceed in a manner more worthy of himself, and therefore a challenge to him to alter his dealings, if he would prove that he possesses the attributes which he claims.” (Henry Melvill; 1779-1873)
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your (my) despondency, or MY anxiety in circumstances of perplexity, or of peril, is nothing less than a call upon God to depart from his fixed course...
ReplyDeleteNot know when/where of things is the hardest part & to be patient is a challange.