God’s Best for Us

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Jun 19, 1879

God’s Best for Us

THE very worst thing that could happen to a man would be for him to carry out his own purposes; to do just what he wants to do; to secure that which he thinks best for him. If we could have our own way, it would be the ruin of us; and we should be the unhappiest creatures imaginable, while on the way to ruin. We know what we want, but we don't know what we ought to want. God knows what is best for us; and he is planning, not only to secure it to us, but to bring us to want what is best for us to have and to hold, and to yield the pursuit or the possession of that which is not for our true welfare.—Ex.