Trusting God Through Every Trial
God is guiding the Gospel Ship, and if we are really in the ship we can afford to trust His guidance at all times and under all circumstances. "When storm after storm rises dark o'er the way," He is not limited in means of action; He can either still the tempest or sail the ship in spite of it. So what is the difference to us which He chooses to do. If the difficulties in the way serve to keep us humble, realizing our dependence on Him, and if it be so that we can not be so kept any other way, then blessed be the trials that come to us. If, as in the case of Job, affliction come to prove that a servant of God can be kept by the spirit of faith from the temptations of the enemy under the sorest of trials, let us endure the chastening for the sake of the "peaceable fruit of righteousness" that is to follow. "Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him; for they shall eat the fruit of their doings."