[Manna - February 22]
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. Z.'02-250 R3061:3