"No normal, healthy saint ever chooses suffering; he simply chooses God's will, just as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. And no saint should ever dare to interfere with the lesson of suffering being taught in another saint's life....
"We are hindered by those who give us their sympathy....
"[Jesus] refused the sympathy of people because in His great wisdom He knew that no one on earth understood His purpose....
"Jesus never measured His life by how or where He was of the greatest use. God places His saints where they will bring the most glory to Him, and we are totally incapable of judging where that may be."
How often we attempt to remove the very things that God desires to use to bring glory to Himself through our lives.
How often we offer sympathy to others and try to help them get out of circumstances that God is using to form them into His image in order to reveal His glory in them.
How often we fail to seek His mind on situations and relationships we don't like, fail to ask His purposes when He places us where we don't want to be and fail to look for what He is doing in the very things we avoid, resent or refuse.
How often we look for the easy way rather than choosing His will regardless of the cost.
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