God can act against your will, but not against your benefit.
Someone destroys his own house and is criticized. If you knew the reason, perhaps you would not criticize the person doing it. Indeed, we are in this basilica, and it is narrow and has something small. And it pleased the lord to make another, and this one will have to be destroyed. Whoever perhaps sees the destruction, when it begins to be torn down, says: "Wasn't this a place of prayer? Wasn't God's name invoked here? Why are they letting this be destroyed?" The work is displeasing because the plan is hidden. So also does God do something. Why He does it, either you know and praise, or you do not know and believe, if you are right in heart. For he is indeed right in heart who, in those cases which he knows, praises God, and in those things he does not know, does not attribute foolishness to God. Unjustly and foolishly, you are criticized, man, the governor of your house, by someone ignorant of your reasons and plans. And you dare to criticize the governor of the whole world and the creator of heaven and earth because the wind blew and the vines withered, or a cloud arose and poured down hail? Do not criticize. He knows how to govern and count all His works. You certainly could not create heaven and earth, and yet if you had the chance, you would say to God: "Oh, if I were in charge, I would not do what you do." When something done by God displeases you, wouldn't you want to be the governor? Blush. See who you wish to succeed: a mortal to the immortal, a man to God. It is better to yield to Him than to seek to succeed Him. Yield to God because God is. And if perhaps He does something against your will, it is not against your benefit. How much do doctors do against the will of the sick, and yet they do not work against health. And a doctor sometimes makes a mistake, God never. If, therefore, you entrust yourself to a doctor who sometimes errs, you trust human counsel. Not to apply a poultice that is mild, or a plaster that doesn't cause you pain, but often to burn, to cut, to remove a member born with you, you entrust yourself to him. You do not say: "He might make a mistake, and I will miss one finger." You allow him to remove one finger, lest the whole body rots from it. And will you not allow God to cut, to take something from your fruits, if perhaps you have discipline in that moderation?
However, God must be prayed to in afflictions so that He may assist us.
Therefore, Brothers, be upright in heart, that is, let God displease you in nothing. I do not say do not ask. Ask as much as you can in affliction. He suspends the rain, he must be asked. But if he rains, he must be praised, and if he does not rain, he must be praised, yet he must still be asked. For we do not say do not ask. Sometimes indeed he is moved and grants to those asking, and he does not want to grant unless to those asking. Is God arrogant, that he does not grant unless to one asking? But then the little soul will grow to the greatness of God, if he helps it in tribulation, so that he gives comfort to us who are asking and afflicted. He wishes to sweeten us for our good, not His. For see what evil it is if the world has become sweet to you, and God, who made the world, has become bitter. Shouldn't you be changed? Shouldn't you be corrected, so that you have a right heart? Rather, let the world be bitter and let God be sweet. Therefore, let our Lord God mix bitterness into this world, indeed, let him mix it. To flow here, to abound in delights, pleases to forget God. If he has any excess of money, he wishes to waste it, and not wishes to do something useful with it, to amass something heavenly. He wishes to destroy both money and himself and others on whom he spends money. Therefore, do you not wish for God to cut away the excess so that the whole does not rot from decay? He knows what he is doing. Let us leave it to him. Only give ourselves to be cured, not give advice to the physician. Turned to the Lord.