I was listening to another lecture on suffering and the lecturer paused on vs. 23 of this passage from Psalm 73:
21 When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
22 I was brutish and ignorant;
I was like a beast toward you.
23 Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you hold my right hand.
24 You guide me with your counsel,
and afterward you will receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven but you?
And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you.
26 My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. Psalm 73:21-26
I remember acting like a beast toward God – NEVERTHELESS – God held my right hand.
I was using my son’s disabilities as an excuse for sinful bitterness and angry responses to God – NEVERTHELESS – God used this same boy and his disabilities to reveal how ugly and destructive that bitterness is in light of how beautiful Jesus is, and then planted in me the desire to lay down that bitterness forever. He continues to help me when the seeds of bitterness start to grow again.
And because he holds me (and you if you are in Christ!), nothing can take me from him:
38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39
Thank you, Jesus!
P.S. The lecture I reference above was quite good, but it is part of a much longer series. Before I recommend it, I’d like to make sure they continue to handle the scriptures well.
The Works of God 
What a wonderful reminder, John. We, the parents who are His beloved adopted children, are finding that our Abba Father God is teaching us more than we ever imagined with raising a daughter, who is deaf, to become mighty in Truth and Spirit unto Him! We find Him showing us repeatedly that in Him bringing us our daughter who is deaf to raise up unto Him is truly just part of His mighty workmanship He is completing in each of our hearts as He is growing us all up/maturing us into Christ likeness with fruit of the Spirit developed and ripened in our hearts! We rejoice so in knowing that, but need to be reminded continually of that Truth in the ‘moments’ of each day as we are in spiritual battle with lies of flesh, Satan, and the world — frisking and replacing those lies with God’s Truth in order to press on with the HOPE within us! We must be meditating on Truths like you have written about in the post above! Yes, we must be continually meditating and living out God’s Truth in Divine power of Holy Spirit with armor of God held in place with prayer! “When I need You, Holy Spirit, more than life itself, then, Christ is formed in me.” ~ Phillips, Craig, and Dean “Take the very hardest thing in your life–the place of difficulty, outward or inward, and expect God to triumph gloriously in that very spot. Just there He can bring your soul into blossom.” ~Lilias Trotter, missionary from Parables of the Cross~ In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith–of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire–may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. 1 Peter 1:6-7