He knows exactly what He is doing.
You have to do with a living God, and that living God has you in hand, although you do not know it, do not realize it at the moment.
You are not forgotten.
If this is a living God with whom we have come into relation in Jesus Christ, then He knows all about us, and has His eye upon us...
And, what is more, He has a direct interest in us and concern for us...
He is not dead to our interests, but very much alive to us.
What we are passing through is not an indication of His having forgotten us, abandoned us, or of His having ceased to be...
So far as we are concerned; He is dealing with us in the way which is most of all calculated to reach His end.
He is the living God.
That can be said on more than one basis of authority.
You can go through the Word of God and follow the life story of many of His servants and see that they had good opportunity, had they so desired, to consider that God was not...
That if God was, then they had been abandoned by Him...
Everything in their experience, in their life, in their affairs seemed to say that they had been abandoned, or that God was dead.
But you follow through the story, and you find that the sequel always shows that at the time when it seemed to them that God was most far off, outside of their world, He was most active in what He was doing...
He was most directly bound up with their affairs, securing some state, some condition, some position in them which was fitting them for a position of trust, and of honour, and of fruitfulness.
Although to them it seemed just the opposite, all the time in their very history He was The Living God In Truth.
You have that made perfectly clear in the Word of God.
There are those of us who also know that in our experience there are times when it seems that God - to use the words of one in the Word of God - "had forgotten to be gracious".
But we are able to look back upon those very times to see that, although we knew it not, God was very active indeed, doing something very deep, and today we are living in the value of that.
God had not left us.
We had to do with the living God, and the living God had to do with us.
That is simple again, but let us store it up against a time of need.
In so many ways this fact should be of infinite comfort to the honest in heart.
The living God is the One with whom we have to do.
~T. Austin Sparks