DEVELOPMENT

God Places Our Character Development Over Our Comfort

 

I asked God for strength, that I might achieve. I was made weak, that I might humbly learn to obey:

It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.  Psalms 119:71

I asked for health, that I might do great things. I was given infirmity, that I might do better things:

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;  2 Cor 4:8-9

I asked for riches, that I might be happy. I was given poverty, that I might be wise:

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
James 2:5

I asked for power, that I might have the praise of men. I was given weakness, that I might feel the need for God:

For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:  2 Cor 1:8-9

Almost despite myself, my unspoken prayers were answered. I am, among men, most rightly blessed!

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Matt 5:3-5