When we wonder what God is doing, we need to talk to ourselves:
"Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me?" While not denying the harsh reality of our circumstances, we preach to ourselves a simple message: Hope in God. We put our hope in God when the pain is chronic, or the illness is incurable, when the persecution is unavoidable, or the relationship has turned poisonous. We put our hope in God when the days are oppressively gray, and sadness has set in like a thick fog, hiding all from view. We put our hope in God when the horror of sin overwhelms like a tsunami, when the foundations of society begin to crumble, and we fear for what the future might hold, when we begin to feel our own mortality with the passing of the years. We put our hope in God, remembering that “if He smiles on us, it is enough, though the whole world should be against us.” From The Heart Taken Up: 90 Days with the Puritans by Stephen Yuille — a 90-day devotional drawing on the richest Puritan writers to move truth from the head to the heart.