GOD'S PLAN OF YOUR LIFE

Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 11, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 11

GOD'S PLAN OF YOUR LIFE.

NEVER complain of your birth, your employment, your hardships; never fancy you could be something if you only had a different lot and sphere assigned you. God understands his own plan, and he knows what you want a great deal better than you do. The very things you most deprecate as fatal limitations or obstructions, are probably what you most want. What you call hindrances, obstacles, discouragements, are probably God's opportunities; and it is nothing new that the patient should dislike his medicines, or any certain proofs that they are poisons. No; a truce to all such impatience. Choke that envy which groans at your heart, because you are not in the same lot with others; bring down your soul, or rather bring it up to receive God's will, and to do his work, in your lot and sphere, under your cloud of obscurity, against your temptations, and then you shall find that your condition is never opposed to your good, but consonant with it.—Selected.