Our Hasty Wishes!

Daily Strength for Daily Needs!

If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him? Matthew 7:11

For His great love has compressed

Our nature and our need

We know not; but He knoweth,

And He will bless indeed,

Therefore, our Heavenly Father,

Give what is best for me.

And take the wants unanswered,

As an offering made to Thee… Anon.

Whatever we ask, which is not for our good, He will keep it back from us. And surely in this there is no less love than in the granting of what we desire as we need. Will not the same love which prompts you to give good, prompt you to keep back an evil thing? If, in our blindness, not knowing what to ask, we pray for things which would turn in our hands to sorrow and death, will not our Father, out of His very love, deny us? How awful would our lot be if our wishes should straightway pass into realities, if we were endowed with a power to bring about all that we desire; if the inclinations of our will were followed by fulfillment of our hasty wishes, and sudden longings were always granted.  One day we shall bless Him. Not more for what He has granted than for what He has denied.  H. E. Manning -1808-1892

Edited by: Shirley Casseta Leger July 13, 2025