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by Walter L. W ilson
B eloved , I would like to give you an outline of the seven things I would wish the Lord to bestow upon you. You know we want you to have the best there is in life, in death, and in eternity. And so here is the list of the things I desire for you. First, I trust God will give you enough happiness to keep you sweet; enough trials to keep you strong; enough labor to keep you from rust ing; enough leisure to keep you broad; enough of sorrow to keep you human; enough of hope to keep you singing and enough of Himself to keep you satisfied. Now don’t you like that? Now let’s look at them. A wish for enough of happiness to keep you sweet. We read in Romans 15:13 “The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace through believing.” You believe what God says about you. You know when you go to the doctor you have to accept his diagnosis. The strange thing is that God never says anything good about us, that is the truth. We go to God and we find out how bad we are, how far short we come of the glory of God, how little we are like the Lord Jesus. We find how many sins, iniquities, trespasses, transgressions and offenses fill our hearts and minds and souls. Sins of omission, sins of commission, sins of permission, and sins of ignor ance because other people commit sin and we become involved in their atti tudes. We surely need someone to do 18
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