This is a quote posted by Carolyn Mahaney at Girl Talk.

Hope it encourages many of my dear friends who are going through difficult times.

Love to God disposes men to see his hand in everything; to own him as the governor of the world, and the director of providence; and to acknowledge his disposal in everything that takes place. And the fact, that the hand of God is a great deal more concerned in all that happens to us than the treatment of men is, should lead us, in a great measure, not to think of things as from men, but to have respect to them chiefly as from God—as ordered by his love and wisdom, even when their immediate source may be the malice or heedlessness of a fellow-man. And if we indeed consider and feel that they are from the hand of God, then we shall be disposed meekly to receive and quietly to submit to them, and to own that the greatest injuries received from men are justly and even kindly ordered of God, and so be far from any ruffle or tumult of mind on account of them. (Jonathan Edwards, Charity and Its Fruits, pp. 79-80)

In addition to that, I was listening to a message that Bruce Ware gave at a Single’s meeting last year entitled, “Trusting God”. He gives a definition for Faith as:

“Faith is trusting God’s power to accomplish what His wisdom in His love has designed and planned.” This was after he elaborated on three qualities of God, (1) All-powerful, (2) All-wise, and (3) All-loving. In all that He does all three of these are true. Then he asks, “Do you trust the wisdom of God to have designed your life for you right now?” That’s a hard question in the midst of difficult circumstances.

Loving you all