The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Though our trials are diverse, there is one thing the Lord expects of us no matter our difficulties and sorrows: He expects us to press on.
God wants us to serve willingly and obediently.
We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind. In the faith that looks through death, in years that bring the philosophic mind.
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.