The richest blessings

God is continually blessing us, by allowing us not to do certain things which we greatly desire to do. He thwarts our worldly ambitions, because to permit us to achieve them, would be to allow our souls to be seriously harmed.

One Christian man desires worldly prosperity — but in his every effort in that direction, he is defeated. He speaks of his failures as misfortunes, and wonders why it is that other men, less industrious and less conscientious, succeed so much better than he.

He even intimates that God's ways are not equal.

But, no doubt, the very disappointments over which he grieves, are in reality the richest blessings .

God knows that the success of his plans, would be fatal to the higher interests of his spiritual life.

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