Loathsome Words And Withered Hands
Most of us who are Christians can look back in our lives and discern what we could not at the time--the hand of God Himself. Things said, books read, people met, or unbidden thoughts that provoked and disturbed. It is only in hindsight that we can now see the full impact and significant force of these circumstantial events. We now see that in them God was at work, sowing seeds that one day would spring up to evergreen life.
Most often these circumstances and events served to disturb, to provoke discomfort.