After the Lord rejected Saul as king, he chose a man with a heart oriented toward the Lord.
In the famous story of Daniel in the lions’ den, we learn about being blameless and see again that God reigns and rescues.
Even though it was hard for the Hebrew slaves to see it, and hard for us sometimes, God does care.
Although we work for the growth of the kingdom, it grows mysteriously in ways that we cannot understand or control.