“If it is true that God our Father is working in advance of us all the time, then surely it is wrong to speak of the monotony of life. For we are on a road which God Himself has sown with surprises for us, and the hour of our deadliest weariness may be the immediate precursor of our richest and most joyous find.

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The unexpected can always happen. You may come upon another God’s hidden blessings tomorrow.

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(L)et us hold on to the faith that all the while God is going before us with the blessings of goodness. This faith puts another complexion on all our fears and anxieties. Before we live it, the web of our life passes through God’s hands. And the shaded parts, as well as the bright parts, are in His wise and loving design. Nobody can promise us freedom from sorrow, but the Bible promises that God is beforehand making the sorrow bearable. He has adjusted our temptations to our strength, and never a one has He hidden, where we come upon it, that it is impossible, by His help, to withstand.”

Archibald Alexander (1916)