so that we may discern what he is teaching us through this essentially outrageous imposition. God permits the turbulence of a wicked world to rock us and both makes and takes these opportunities to draw us more deeply into fellowship with him. It takes wisdom to accept this and to grow spiritually as a result of it. This is, as one commentator puts it, the ‘highest of all [wisdoms] and the most difficult of attainment’.3 Why? Because it is relatively easier actively to do the will of God—i.e., to