To Love God is to Love His Will

To Love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured out by the One who knows us through and through.

E.B. Pusley's rules to gain contentment:

1) Allow thyself to complain of nothing, not even the weather

2)Never picture thyself to thyself under any circumstances in which thou are not

3) Never compare thine own lot with that of another

4) Never allow thyself to dwell on the wish that this or that had been, or were, otherwise than it was, or is. God Almighty loves thee better and more wisely than thou doest thyself.

5) Never dwell on the morrow. Remember, that it is God's not thine. The heaviest part of sorrow often is to look forward to it. "The Lord will provide."

Thoughts- perfection does not consist in understanding God's design but in submitting to them. The whole essence of the spiritual life consists in recognizing the designs of God for us at that present moment- and that is something I don't want to miss!!


These notes and quotes were written by me in my journal August 13, 2004. I had just graduated from college and had spent 2 months in South Africa. I was trying to figure out what God wanted to do with my life. I know that when I was struggling through many questions and adjusting to life after college that I thought that this was probably the only time that I would be struggling with contentment- well as we all know- it is a lifelong struggle. Almost 6 years later I sit here with the same struggles, all the while preaching these truth's to my soul so that I won't be paralyzed by unmet dreams or fear of the future- and I know that this will not be my last time. I do pray that each time I am filled with doubt of God's provision, disappointment with what isn't happening in my life, I will have increasingly more in my arsenal to preach to my heart and soul because I know that as life continues the contentment issue only increases and involves bigger struggles than grades or cars.