What else would explain how easily Christians fall into grumbling or anxiety over their circumstances? Why such resentment and fretting, if we have a settled confidence that God is indeed on His throne working out His eternal purpose for everlasting good on behalf of those for whom Christ died?

Methinks that many may affirm His kindness in outward doctrinal formula, but in their hearts lies an unrecognized and unconfessed suspicion that, in the end, Christ really doesn't have their good in mind so much after all.