Into the experience of all there come times of keen disappointment and utter discouragement—days when sorrow is the portion, and it is hard to believe that God is still the kind benefactor of His earthborn children; days when troubles harass the soul, till death seems preferable to life. It is then that many lose their hold on God and are brought into the slavery of doubt, the bondage of unbelief. Could we at such times discern with spiritual insight the meaning of God’s providences we should see angels seeking to save us from ourselves, striving to plant our feet upon a foundation more firm than the everlasting hills, and new faith, new life, would spring into being. (PK 162.1) MC VC

The faithful Job, in the day of his affliction and darkness, declared: (PK 162.2) MC VC

“Let the day perish wherein I was born.”
“O that my grief were throughly weighed,
And my calamity laid in the balances together!” Job 3:3, 6:2. (PK 162.3) MC VC