Reply To: Girdeth me with strength

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Reply To: Girdeth me with strength

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August 29, 2017 at 4:56 pm #4837

spencel

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Thank you for this important reminder. I grateful for all that I am learning here to get personal will and sense out of the way. These lessons are helping me to be aware when I am operating on auto pilot, not paying attention, which sets me up for absorbing negative thinking rather than radiating thoughts from God. Instead of just praying in the morning and waiting to the end of the day to check in with God, leaving a great gap, I am working more diligently on keeping that connection throughout the day. This has been requiring great discipline and getting myself out of the way. Learning from the mistakes helps me grow too.

I came across this today while cleaning up my files. It was published as a quote in the Sept. 1888 Journal.

“To be dependent on others for sympathy and comfort makes you weak. To be self-dependent makes you weaker still; for that fails you in the day of your greatest need. To become independent is a dream of your pride; for no such thing is possible. To become dependent on God makes you strong.” E. H. SEARS