Anecdote: 1
Surface Winds and Ocean Currents
In the cold waters around Greenland are innumerable icebergs, some little and some gigantic. If you'd observe them carefully, you'd notice that sometimes the small icecaps move in one direction while their massive counterparts flow in another.
The explanation is simple. Surface winds drive the little ones, whereas the huge masses of ice are carried along by deep ocean currents.
When we face trials and tragedies, it's helpful to see our lives as being subject to two forces -- surface winds and ocean currents.
The winds represent everything changeable, unpredictable, and distressing. But operating simultaneously with these gusts and gales is another force that's even more powerful. It is the sure movement of God's wise and sovereign purposes, the deep flow of His unchanging love.
— Source: Unknown
Anecdote:-2
‘Reconcile Friends’
No one will deny that there are many mysteries connected with divine sovereignty and human responsibility. Nowhere does God ask us to choose between these two truths, because they both come from God and are a part of God’s plan. They do not compete; they cooperate. The fact that we cannot fully understand how they work together does not deny the fact that they do. When a man asked Charles Spurgeon how he reconciled divine sovereignty and human responsibility, Spurgeon replied: “I never try to reconcile friends!”
