Why. ( Romans 8 v 28 )

Let consider a few more thoughts from Exodus, by Alec Motyer , and Israels  forty years in the wilderness,  ''Forty years- quick to say,slow to pass - (Forgive my humour on this,it was because they had no TV, sorry about that,but I hope you are not so self righteous,that you did at lest smile , now to continue on with the serious stuff) ,Israel found themselves in the vast and dreadful ( terrifying) desert, that thirsty waterless land , with its venomous snakes and scorpions' ( Deut. 8; 13 ). Let us consider A.Ms. application .''To the troublesome question, 'Why?', we may ask, when we face hardships and reverses, there are two fairly common answers ( or surmised) by Christians. The quick ' spiritual' answer is that our troubles are all down to the malevolence of Satan,who is ever watchful to find and exploit some loophole in our defences. The other answer is that , knowingly or unknowingly, we have strayed out of the will of God and somehow got our guidance wrong. In certain circumstances  there can be an element of truth in both these explanations, but neither of them tell the whole story. Nor are they the explanation that we find in Exodus, where the Word of God has something intensely important and fundamentally comforting to say to us- the Israelites were in the wilderness because the Lord had led them there''

                                               I,ll that He blesses is our good
                                               and unblest good is ill
                                               and all is right ,that seems most wrong
                                               if it be His sweet will.