RE: "God is constant and clear in His purpose."

God is constant in and of himself. But often not clear to us are the reasons he allows particular things to happen the way they do.

On God's constancy
• "[H]e remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself."- 1 Tim. 2:13 ESV
• "Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?" - Num. 23:19
• "His steadfast love endures forever!" - 1 Chron. 16:34

On God's mystery
• "Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!" - Ro. 11:33
• "The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." - John 3:8
• "For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known." - 1 Cor. 13:12

That we cannot understand precisely how God is working does not make prayer futile, but gives us reason to pray with great humility, leaving all things to him as we remember the magnitude of the love and power that he has demonstrated by the cross and the empty tomb. "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you" (1 Peter 5:7 NIV).