Status Updates From Trusting God

Sometimes we do not demand of God that He explain Himself, but we try to comprehend for ourselves what He is doing-unwilling to live without rational reasons for what is happening to us. We are insatiable in our quest for the why of the adversity that has come upon us. But this is a futile as well as an untrusting task. God's ways, being the ways of infinite wisdom, simply cannot be comprehended by our finite minds.

Joseph's brothers devise and execute their plans; aroused by jealousy... Their evil plan achieves historical realization, but the historical events are products of the Divine activity. God's good intents follow the mischievous path of the brothers… the brothers unwittingly follow the path that God has blazed. They work in His service. The purpose of God lights up the horizon of evil, jealous, malicious activity.