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Building Character with Remembrance of God
Waiting on God means living a life of desire towards Him, delighting in Him, depending on Him and remaining faithful to Him.
Matthew Henry, an authority on scriptures, says waiting on God means living a life of desire towards Him, delighting in Him, depending on Him and remaining faithful to Him.
For beginning the day with God, for spending all waking hours with Him and then closing the day with Him, Henry makes several suggestions on the lines of Brother Lawrence, who "practised the presence of God".
Worldly people boast about themselves and exult in the multitude of their riches. The godly man dwells in God, is at home with Him and has confidence that whatever he meets with in this world, he has reason to hope in His providence and provision.
Remembrance of God clean-ses our conscience. Our mind is fed by the truth of God and our imagination, by His beauty.
And our heart is open to His love and our will, to His purpose. All these must remain so for the rest of the time when we attend to our daily business or interact with fellow beings.
Even when our hands are working, our hearts may be waiting on Him by an habitual regard for Him, and with a desire to glorify Him.
Whether we are toiling or resting, waiting upon God lightens the toil and sweetens the comfort of our repose. When our affairs prosper and we are possessed of success and plenty, we yet need His presence to guard us against all temptation. In prosperity and adversity we must not be moved.
Blessed are those who discover the goodness of God in their youth and learn to wait on Him, and when we get old with our infirmities we will find more reason to depend on Him; and more time to serve Him through
intercession and prayer.
Each day brings with it new cares and burdens. Let these burdens be cast upon the Lord believing that His providence extends to all your affairs, to all events. Your time is in His hands, and all your ways at His disposal. Believe His promise to work out all things to your good.
The more we discern the vanity and emptiness of the world, and all our enjoyments in it, and their utter insufficiency to make us happy, the closer we shall be to God.
If you bring up children to love God and fellow beings, engendering in them a cooperative spirit instead
of the worldly, competitive spirit, they will grow up to be a blessing.
Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words and thoughts; daily forgiveness, unselfishness, kindness, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial.
These little acts in keeping with scriptural instructions, practised daily, mark one as distinct from others who follow their instincts and desires unres-trained by the spirit. This again constitutes daily victory over the temporal and progress towards perfection.
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