Two Viewpoints of the Same Reality

All these things are against me. Gen. 42:36b If God be for us, who can be against us? Rom. 8:31b All these things are against me! What a depth of misery opens up before us at this heartrending outcry! Yawning darknesses of despair appear ready to swallow us op, when we utter this passionate plaint of helplessness! Things are against us! They conspire to destroy us! They have united their forces to extinguish the very light of our life, to take the last drop of sweetness out of our already...