3:12 "We cannot help wishing to be free of sorrows." 3:43 "For God Himself placed in our nature the desire for well-being. And so included in the prayer He Himself gave us, the request: "lead us not into temptation" which we repeat several times a day." 4:39 Tragedy Happens a spiritual person feels in them to say "Thy Will Be Done." 6:05 "If after this prayer, which God is sure to hear, he sends us sorrow, it is clearly his special will, to which we, his creatures, conscious conscious of our duty to obey him in everything, should submit with a good heart, and endure our trial as something essential to your and my salvation." 6:42 _Which God is sure to hear._ 7:42 He hears our prayers, we endure trials. 7:56 "Also, in repeating the prayer: "lead us not into temptation" not as I will but as you will. Imitating our Savior. 8:19 "In other words, say this prayer, not because you abore temptations and want to avoid them at all costs, but only because the Lord commanded us to pray thus. Keeping in the soul a complete readiness to accept with a Good heart all that God pleases to send us. And refusing to pander to the self-loving desire for uninterrupted well-being. Which is impossible on Earth, since it belongs to the future eternal life." 9:01 We don't have uninterrupted joy pleasure safety in this world. Untested Joyous Life is in the world to come, not in this world. 9:32 "Lead us not into temptation." God, I don't want to be tested but I submit to your will because I have made this request and you have heard it if and when I face trials I know it is from you I know I am enduring it in this world With my eyes on the world to come When this will no longer be a necessity, a part of life 10:32 Next week: Chapter 44. Something completely Different. 10:50 "Until then, God Bless You, and I'll See You In Church."
3:12 "We cannot help wishing to be free of sorrows."
3:43 "For God Himself placed in our nature the desire for well-being. And so included in the prayer He Himself gave us, the request: "lead us not into temptation" which we repeat several times a day."
4:39
Tragedy Happens
a spiritual person feels in them to say "Thy Will Be Done."
6:05 "If after this prayer, which God is sure to hear, he sends us sorrow, it is clearly his special will, to which we, his creatures, conscious conscious of our duty to obey him in everything, should submit with a good heart, and endure our trial as something essential to your and my salvation."
6:42 _Which God is sure to hear._
7:42 He hears our prayers, we endure trials.
7:56 "Also, in repeating the prayer: "lead us not into temptation" not as I will but as you will. Imitating our Savior.
8:19 "In other words, say this prayer, not because you abore temptations and want to avoid them at all costs, but only because the Lord commanded us to pray thus. Keeping in the soul a complete readiness to accept with a Good heart all that God pleases to send us. And refusing to pander to the self-loving desire for uninterrupted well-being. Which is impossible on Earth, since it belongs to the future eternal life."
9:01 We don't have uninterrupted joy pleasure safety in this world.
Untested Joyous Life is in the world to come, not in this world.
9:32 "Lead us not into temptation."
God, I don't want to be tested
but I submit to your will
because I have made this request and you have heard it
if and when I face trials
I know it is from you
I know I am enduring it in this world
With my eyes on the world to come
When this will no longer be a necessity, a part of life
10:32 Next week: Chapter 44. Something completely Different.
10:50 "Until then, God Bless You, and I'll See You In Church."