Why Should I Trust God In My Suffering?

"No affliction would trouble a child of God," wrote G. Campbell Morgan, "if he knew God's reason for sending it."  But, of course, that is the difficult part‑‑why does God allow some things to happen?  "Take it by faith!" people say, but to take by faith the rest of your life in a wheelchair is no easy matter, especially if you are a young man or woman with the rest of your life before you.  In July 1967, a young woman, who was then 17 years of age, dived into the water not realizing how shallow it was.