If we could change

If we could change places with anyone

If we could change places with anyone — the one of all we know who seems to have the most favored lot; if we could take this person's place, with all its conditions, its circumstances, its cares, its responsibilities — there is little doubt that we would quickly cry out to God to give us back our own old place, and our own old burdens.

It is because we do not know all, that we think our neighbor's load lighter and more easily carried than our own.

"I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content: I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound.

Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." Philippians 4:11-13

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