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He Should Be All We Want

 

Your Will Be Done, O Lord, Not Mine

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) O Lord, You know, what is best for me, let it be done according to Your will.   Give me what You will, in whatever measure You will, and at whatever time You will.   Give me what You know to be the best, as pleases You best, and as will best promote Your glory.   Put me where You will, and freely do with me in all things according to Your will. Am I not Your creature, and in Your hands, for You to lead me and turn me about as You will?   I am Your servant, ready to do all things at your command, for I do not want to live for myself, but only for You.   If only I could do this worthily and perfectly. Thomas a Kempis

Eternal Wisdom

Try, my child, to do the will of another rather than your own.   Always choose to have fewer riches than more.   Always seek the lowest place and desire to be subject to all.   Always wish for and pray that the will of God be accomplished in you.  Thomas a Kempis

Why Don't We Ask This Question More Frequently?

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) If you are unprepared to face death today, how will you be tomorrow? Tomorrow is uncertain and you may not be here to see it.  Thomas a Kempis 

In Whom Do You Place Your Confidence?

(Image source: Wikimedia Commons) They also are far from being virtuous, who in time of trouble or adversity, give themselves up to despondency and do not place their confidence in Me as they ought.   Thomas a Kempis

One Hell of a Question!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons)   If you are unprepared to face death today, how will you be tomorrow? Tomorrow is uncertain and you may not be here to see it. (Thomas a Kempis – from Imitation of Christ )