Comforting...

Mark read this to me while we were in the hospital and we both found it comforting, while we don't claim to be enduring true suffering, it was challenging for us, and this reminded us of God's nearness and the blessing of His sovereignty...

Cast Your Cares Upon God. 1 Peter 5:7

The Lord sends hard times." You have laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the depths.Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you have afflicted me" (Ps 88:6-7)

The Lord sends good times.His is the sun the cheers and the frost that chills. His is the deep calm and the fierce tornado. To dwell on second causes is frequently frivolous. The world says, "It might have been prevented if..." Why conjecture about what would have been different if this or that had happened? This is folly.

As long as I trace my pain to accident, my bereavement to mistake, my loss to another's wrong, or my discomfort to an enemy, I am earthly and shall break my teeth with gravel (Lam 3:16). Yet when I rise to my God and see His hand at work, I grow calm and stop complaining. "I did not open my mouth , because it was You who did it" (Ps 39:9).
David preferred to fall into God's hands and all believers know that they are safest and happiest in divine hands. Raising objections with man is poor work. Pleading with God brings help and comfort. "Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7) This is a precept that will be be easy to practice when you see that the burden came originally from God.

Beside Still Waters p 346.