“What are we going to do?” I asked.
“We will do what’s required of us.”
“How will we know what that is?”
“All is given in its season. All that is needful is granted. We have but to ask, and if our hearts are in the asking it will be granted.”
“Always?”
“You are full of questions, boy,” the wise Emory’s chuckled. “No, not always. We serve at the Gifting God’s Pleasure. In Him we move and have our being; in Him we love both here and in the world to come. If anything is withheld from is, it is for the reason of a greater good to come.”
“Always?”
This time the Emrys became adamant. “Oh, aye!” “Always. Goodness is ever good, and the All-wise God is a good God. From Him goodness itself derives it’s meaning... to see evil and call it good mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding, the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled...
God is good; His gifts are granted each in its own season, and according to His purpose.
From Arthur by Stephen Lawhead, chapter 5, page 7.
