LORD, Not My Will, But Yours Be Done.

We do not know what is best for us!
(Charles Spurgeon, "A Good Start!")

Suppose that it were now put into 
the power of each one of us to be rich--
I suspect that the most of us would be 
eager to avail ourselves of the opportunity. 

And yet few would consider whether it would 
be best for us to have the burden of wealth.

It is a question whether some people, who 

live godly where they now are--

would be half as good, or a tenth as happy--

if they were lifted to wealth. I have seen 

choice men drivel under the influence of luxury. 

We do not know what is best for us! 

It is sometimes very much better for 

us to suffer loss and disappointment--

than to obtain wealth and prosperity!

How often our calamities 

are our preservatives! 

A lesser evil may ward off a greater one. 

Many a man might have soared into 

the clouds of folly--

if his wings had not been clipped 

by adversity.

Agur's prayer, 

"Give me neither poverty nor riches," 
(Proverbs 30:8b)

was a wise one.
But our LORD'S is still better, 

"Nevertheless, not as I will, but 
as YOU will." (Matthew 26:39d)

"All these things shall be added unto you," 

and the measure of the addition shall be 

arranged by infallible wisdom. Temporal 

things shall come to you in such proportion 

as you yourself would desire them--

IF you were able to know all things, 

and to perform a judgment 

according to infinite wisdom. 

Would you not prefer a lot selected by the LORD--

to one chosen by yourself? You may joyfully 

sing with the Psalmist, 

"You shall choose my inheritance for me!"

"Keep your lives free from the love of 
money and be content with what you have, 
because GOD has said: Never will I leave 
you; never will I forsake you!" Hebrews 13:5

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GraceGems has published Archibald Brown's very helpful sermon on long-continued trials, 

"How Long?"