The Best Promise

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. —Romans 8:28

Everything that happen to you is for your own good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship toward the port. If lightning and thunder comes, it clears the atmosphere and promotes your soul’s health. You gain by loss, you grow healthy in sickness, you live by dying, and you are made rich in losses.

Could you ask for a better promise? It is better that all things should work for my good than all things should be as I would wish to have them. All things might work for my pleasure and yet might all work my ruin. It all things do not always please me, they will always benefit me.

This is the best promise of this life.
—Charles Haddon Spurgeon