God knows best

There is one thing we must get firmly into our heads and it is this: God knows far better than we do what is best for us, and he is waiting to give it to us.  And not only that, he will also see that we get it, provided that we go to him and pray for it.  You may wonder why we have to ask God for anything since he knows what we ought to have.  The reason is that, although God gives us much without being asked, there are some things which he wishes us to have but waits for us to seek them from him first.  These things he will give us only if we go to him and ask him.

God puts first things first

But of one thing you can be absolutely sure: you can trust God completely to give you what is best for you to have.  Remember, God loves you far more than you love yourself.  We may pray for good fortune only to find ourselves having to go through a bad time instead.  Well, from that bad time God can give us, in answer to our prayers, some good thing which we would not otherwise have had.  And as a result we find that we trust and love him much more than we did before and so have been brought that much nearer to him.  And the nearer we get to God in this life, the nearer we shall be to Heaven when this life is over.  God always puts first things first.  He is much more interested in us than in our possessions; much more interested in what we are than in what we have.