June 6

God’s choice brings rest

“Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off” (Psa. 139:2).
“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good” (Gen. 50:20).

Never complain of your birth, your training, your employment, your hardships; never fancy that you could be something, if only you 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 that 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.

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