Post by ResLight on Feb 21, 2021 12:25:40 GMT -5
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have. --Hebrews 13:5
SELFISH prayers are too expensive. Some have gained wealth and lost the truth and its service; some have gained health, only to find that with it they gained other trials no less severe: some have had their dear ones restored to them from the very jaws of death, only to wish afterward that God had not answered their prayers--or, more correctly, to wish that they had accepted the Lord's wisdom and providences trustfully, contentedly, uncomplainingly....Spiritual Israel should use wisely such things as are within their reach -- accepting all as God's gifts with thanksgiving; but their petitions should be for spiritual gifts -- including patient endurance and heart contentment. -- Excerpt from "Journeying Toward Canaan" Z.'02-250 R3061:3
SELFISH prayers are too expensive. Some have gained wealth and lost the truth and its service; some have gained health, only to find that with it they gained other trials no less severe: some have had their dear ones restored to them from the very jaws of death, only to wish afterward that God had not answered their prayers--or, more correctly, to wish that they had accepted the Lord's wisdom and providences trustfully, contentedly, uncomplainingly....Spiritual Israel should use wisely such things as are within their reach -- accepting all as God's gifts with thanksgiving; but their petitions should be for spiritual gifts -- including patient endurance and heart contentment. -- Excerpt from "Journeying Toward Canaan" Z.'02-250 R3061:3
