While reading Heidi by Johanna Spyri, I came across a great quote. The doctor is asking Heidi if being on the Alm can cure anyone, even if they don't believe they can be helped, and don't trust God because their sorrow is from God.
Heidi's reply is thus: "'One must wait,' she said after a while, 'and must always think that soon the good God will bring something to make one happier; that something will come out of the trouble, but one must keep perfectly quiet and not run away. After a while it will be quite plain how God had all the time something good in his thoughts, though we did not know it" (pg 222).
Wow. How profound. Wait simply on the Lord, and trust that He knows what He is doing. We must "keep perfectly quiet and not run away" or try to fix it ourselves, but simply trust.
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"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5).
"Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord" (Psalm 27:14).
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