When you are down and feeling blue ....

God was in it all. He was working out His plans and purposes; not a single event was random or haphazard. As Joseph told Pharaoh when discussing the dream of the seven years of plenty and of famine, "The thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass" (Genesis 41:32).

Nothing in today's headlines or in our personal experience is random or haphazard. The Most High rules in the affairs of men. Current events seem out of control, but history is His-story, and God is working out all things according to the counsel of His will (Ephesians 1:11). 

Don't be discouraged! The most trivial and the most important, the most likely and the most unlikely, circumstances are made to minister to the development of God's purposes.

 C. M. Mackintosh