All that a man possesses is at times not in the hand of God, but in the hand of the adversary, because God has never withdrawn that authority from Satan.
It is a good thing to feel our own powerlessness in the face of destruction; it makes us know how much we depend upon God.
When a man is in despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out, he will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God, consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
Job was never fundamentally impatient with God; he could not understand what God was doing, but he did not charge God with foolishness; he hung on to the certainty that God would yet be cleared, and so would he.
Our Lord was meek towards His Father’s dispensations for Him, but not necessarily meek towards men when His Father’s honor was at stake.
Desolation is never a right thing; wrong things happen actually because things are wrong really. One of the dangers of fanaticism is to accept disaster as God’s appointment, as part of His design. It is not God’s design, but His permissive will.
The greatest fear a Christian has is not a personal fear, but the fear that his hero won’t get through, that God will not be able to clear His character.
Excerpt From: Oswald Chambers. “Our Ultimate Refuge.”
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