May 21, 2016

“Suppose a man to be discontented with the appointments of providence; suppose him to murmur and repine at what the Almighty allots him to do or to bear; is he not to be charged with provoking God to change his purpose?  and what is this if it be not “tempting” God—a striving to induce him to swerve from what his plans, though every one of those plans has been settled by infinite wisdom?  Or, again, if any one of us, notwithstanding multiplied proofs of the Divine loving kindness, doubt or question whether God does indeed love him; of what is he guilty, if not of tempting the Lord, seeing that he solicits God to give additional evidence, as though there were deficiency, and challenges him to fresh demonstrations of what he has already abundantly displayed?”   Henry Melvill

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