Sad providences [Job 23 v10]

 J. Flavel author of ,/The mystery of providence/,wrote of sad providences,
that  even by the hands of these providences, God will do us good[Romans
8 v28]By these God is but killing your lusts,weaning your hearts from a vain world,preventing temptations and exciting your desires after heaven.
This is all the hurt they shall do to you,and shall that sadden us?/I  have found it so,consider how unrestrained certain lusts are in people.Paul the apostle declared that there was no good thing in his flesh[Romans 7v 18]
That being the case for all of us,God in his mercy,works in our lives,by sad
Providence's,be it through bereavement,poverty,unemployment,and a multitude of other happens.In our unsaved days these things run their course,no new years resolution did much to change us,Often God has to use severe means to curtail out thought patterns. Consider Job and all he suffered,yet this spiritual man,declared,/But He knoweth the way that I take
;when He hath tried me,I shall come forth as gold[Job 23 v10]God is in the
business of changing us,I read this recently,our happiness is not His goal,
rather He works in our lives to make us more holy. Contrary to what people
say as regards holiness,it is a blessed state,it is a happy state,a state of being free.
                                            A  prayer.
Dear God we bow to your will,we ask that you would perfect that which concerneth us,even though the process may be painful, in Jesus name Amen.