An honest heart seeks to please God in all things and offend Him in none.

A 'god' who's will is resisted, designs frustrated, and purpose checkmated, possesses no title to Deity.

God cannot change for the better, for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.

Whatever I cannot do for God's glory must be avoided.

Those circumstances, which to the dim eye of Jacob's faith wore a hue so somber, were at that very moment developing and perfecting the events which were to shed around the evening of his life the halo of a glorious and cloudless sunset. All things were working together for his good! And so, troubled soul, the "much tribulation" will soon be over, and as you enter the "kingdom of God" you shall then see, no longer "through a glass darkly" but in the unshadowed sunlight of the Divine presence, that "all things" did "work together" for your personal and eternal good.