Paul acknowledged what we must acknowledge if we are to trust God. God's plan and His way of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.

If there is a single event in all of the universe that can occur outside of God's sovereign control, then we cannot trust Him.

Could I trust Him even if I didn't understand?

Yet, I acknowledge it often seems more difficult to trust God than to obey Him.

It is only as we know God in this personal way that we come to trust Him.

Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.

But, as so often has been observed, we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

I believe one of our problems in dealing with this subject is that we tend to view the interaction between God and man on the same level as the interaction between man and man.

In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God truths we must believe if we are to trust Him in adversity. They are: • God is completely sovereign. God is infinite in wisdom. God is perfect in love.

Regardless of the nature of the circumstances, we must learn to trust God if we would glorify God in them.

As God's rule is invincible, so it is incomprehensible. His ways are higher than our ways (see Isaiah 55:9). His judgments are unsearchable, and His paths are beyond tracing out (see Romans 11:33). The sovereignty of God is often questioned because man does not understand what God is doing. Because He does not act as we think He should, we conclude He cannot act as we think He would.