grace my fears relieved.”2 God does this, and often in his sovereign design permits Satan to instigate the trouble, for reasons that God has tailor-made for us, though we are suffering. It is not that he enjoys seeing us squirm or suffer. He is not sadistic. But he does keep us on the mat until we cry “uncle!” to ensure that in the end, after we wear ourselves out trying to solve the issue or get out of the trouble on our own, we understand that he was the One who met our need, who answered our cries
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