One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
Most times, your blessings are also your curses. And for me, I have this ability to express myself so clearly with pen and paper, but when it comes to expressing myself verbally, I put up a big wall.
Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.
Essentially this promise before curse, this superiority of God's love in Christ, must come from the Bible.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
Some days we may be more acutely conscious of our sinfulness and hence more aware of our need of His grace, but there is never a day when we can stand before Him on our own two feet of performance, when we are worthy enough to deserve His blessing.
The Savior has suffered not just for our iniquities but also for the inequality, the unfairness, the pain, the anguish, and the emotional distresses that so frequently beset us.
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.
Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.