Some poor man being assaulted...shall perchance say, "How is it? Does God regard me? No, for behold I pine away and call upon him and yet I find no comfort and therefore it is a sign that he has shaken me off." And afterward, his sins come to his remembrance and the Devil stirs up stories of such stuff as are horrible. Thus you see a poor creature that is utterly overwhelmed.
When this is past, then comes God to make all whole again. The conscience that was tormented before becomes quiet. Where there was nothing but darkness before, there He now shines, there shows He a sweet and amiable countenance after the manner of fair weather.
--John Calvin, in a Sermon on Job 9:17, "Behold he smites me down with a whirlwind and wounds me without a cause."
"Then comes God..."
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
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