To Love God

To Love God is to love His will.  It is to wait quietly for life to be measured out by One who knows us through and through.  It is to be content with His timing and His wise apportionment (Do I feel that my portion is too much of something? Too little of something else?).  It is to follow in the steps of the Master, as did Paul, who was able to say that he had learned contentment no matter what the circumstances.  His circumstances when he wrote that? Prison! No easy lesson, but "great gain," which is the sum of godliness plus contentment (1 Timothy 6:6). - Elizabeth Elliot