Contentment

Every single thing that happens to the Christian expresses God's love and furthers God's purpose for him.  Thus, so far as he is concerned, God is love to him - holy, omnipotent love - at every moment and in every event of everyday life.  Even when he cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, he knows that there is love in and behind them and so he can rejoice always; even when, humanly speaking, things are going wrong, he knows that the true story of his life, when known, will prove to be "mercy from first to last" - and he is content.

In God's Presence, January 6