God has made us that we may glorify him, and if we do not honor him we miss the end and object of our being.
So I will say it’s good that You afflicted me
That I might learn Your holy ways
And to trust in You at all times
// far better.//
I really like this quote that I posted earlier. It’s encouraging to me because God does always give what is best.
But that’s not always in the manner of a happy-go-lucky little life with no problems. It’s been said that you only have to live long enough to suffer, and I certainly agree! But I also believe that sometimes what is “far better” than what we ask for is suffering. Trials. Hardships.
That sounds weird, I know, but I’ve seen God use difficulties to teach me something far better than what I could’ve learned in prosperity. If we ask for blessing, he will give us blessing…but in his own perfectly wise way, and he can do it through prosperity or through trials. He is mighty and loving enough to use both types of circumstances for our good, and either can be “far better,” simply because he is the one ordaining our every step and leading us by the hand.
It’s not that it’s always easy to believe this. But I know it’s true. I’m just trying to talk to myself.
God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.
// hearts toward heaven//
The Gospel does not confine the hearts of men to the enjoyment of the present life, but raises them to the hope of immortality; does not fix them down to earthly delights, but announcing that there is a treasure laid up in heaven, carries the heart thither also.
—John Calvin
(Source: theoldguys.org)
He knows.
quotes + thoughts by Carrie
