"Do not worry about the future. It makes no sense to worry if God loves you and has taken care of you. However, when God blesses you, remember to keep your eyes on Him and not the blessing. Enjoy your blessing day by day just as the Israelites enjoyed their manna, but do not try to store the blessings for the future. There are two peculiar characteristics of pure faith. It sees God behind all the blessings and imperfect works which tend to conceal Him, and it holds the soul in a state of continued suspense. Faith seems to keep us constantly up in the air, never quite certain of what is going to happen in the future; never quite able to touch a foot to solid ground. But faith is willing to let God act with the most perfect freedom, knowing that we belong to Him and are to be concerned only about being faithful in that which he has given us to do for the moment. This moment by moment dependence this dark unseeing peacefulness of the soul under the utter uncertainty of the future, is a true martyrdom which takes place silently and without any stir. It is God's way of bringing a slow death to self. And the end comes so imperceptibly that it is often almost as much hidden from the sufferer himself, as from those who don't even know he suffers.
Sometimes in this life of faith God will remove His blessings from you. But remember that He knows how and when to replace them, wither through the ministry of others or by Himself...
Eat then your daily bread without worrying about tomorrow... The same God who feeds you today is the very God who will feed you tomorrow. God will see to it that manna falls again from Heaven in the midst of the desert, before His children lack any good thing." Fenelon, Let Go, p.28
This was a blessing to me! thank you for sharing, Toni!
ReplyDeleteI'm so glad. It was to me too!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing Toni,it was a blessing. Love you!
ReplyDeleteTasha
Thanks Tasha for sharing. So glad.
DeleteI love this quote Toni! I've read this book before and it never ceases to amaze me how much something can be such a blessing over and over again. :) Good books and quotes sometimes feel similar to the Bible in that respect. You can read it and be blessed by it; and put it down for a while. And then suddenly, it comes to your attention once more and blesses you over again to the point that you feel like you just read it for the first time. Anyway. That was a lengthy way of saying...it blessed me over again and thank you. :) Haha
ReplyDeleteI LOVE this book. It was written for me a couple hundred years ago! It's amazing. Every Christian should read it. :)
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