Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

Moses believed that God was all merciful. Reason and sense might suggest that a more pleasant manner of deliverance could be found, that some compromise might be reached, and that many hardships might be avoided, but faith told Moses that God was love and that He would not give His people one drop of bitterness beyond what was absolutely needed.