God Doesn’t Use Binoculars

“Who can say that his life ended because God glanced away for a moment? When men are thrust into the maw and grind of war, the fools among t hem think they are shaping their own destiny. But every arrow, every bullet, follows the path ordained for it before the worlds were made. King Ahab thought he could thwart the words of God by putting on a different set of clothes — as though God would be squinting at the battle from a distance” (Joy at the End of the Tether, p. 42).