I read something today that totally convicted me of the complaining heart and lack of contentment that I sometimes feel. From John Flavel:
"Consider your spiritual mercies and priviliges with which the Lord Jesus has invested you, and complain at your providential lot if you can. One of these mercies alone has enough in it to sweeten all your troubles in this world. Consider also your sins, and that will make you contented with your lot. Consider what your sin deserves from God - eternal ruin. Consider how near you are to the change of your condition. Have but a little patience, and all will be as well with you as your hearts can desire.
It is no small comfort to the saints that this world is the worst place that they shall ever be in; things will get better every day with them. If the traveller has spent all his money, yet it does not much trouble him if he knows himself to be within a few miles of his home. If there are no candles in the house, we do not much trouble over it if we are sure it is almost break of day; for then there will be no use for them. This is the case with us' 'for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.'"
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