Think of the brokenness, the incompleteness, the littleness of these lives of ours!
We get glimpses of beauty in character which we are not able to attain! We have spiritual longings which seem to us too great ever to come true. We dream of things we want to do but when we try to work them out, our clumsy hands cannot put them into realizations!
We have glimmerings of a love that is very rich and tender, without a trace of selfishness, without envy or jealousy, without resentment a love which does not seek its own, nor is not provoked, and bears all things. We get the vision from the life of Christ Himself. We say, "I will learn that lesson of love I will be like that!" But we fail.
We strive to be sweet-spirited, unselfish, thoughtful, kind but we must wet our pillow with tears at the close of our marred days, because we cannot be what we strive to be! We have glimpses of an inner peace which is very beautiful. We strive after it strive with intense effort but do not reach it!
[J. R. Miller]
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Romans 7:15 ... For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Proverbs 10:24 ... The fear of the wicked, it shall come upon him: but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
1 John 3:2 ... Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.❤
