Thoughts for a Thursday

A friend sent me a devotional that included the quote below. It is written by Anne Cetas of RBC Ministries for Our Daily Bread:

“Bad things happen—tragic and horrible things. Good things happen—amazing and miraculous things. And all this happens randomly to us. But it is not random to the God who cradles our aching hearts. He knows … Suffering will come. But God is … larger than the events that seem to contradict God’s goodness.”

We will experience sickness, accidents, sorrow, and death. But we are not on our own. God is in control. “Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all” (Ps. 34:19).