Is It Good For Me?

Elizabeth Elliot Devotional


Yesterday we looked at a piece of property on the
sea. There were lovely woods to one side, two
tall, scraggly, very picturesque pine trees on
the other, huge rocks which turn pink in the
sunset below, and in front miles and miles of
blue ocean.

It is not always easy to know whether a thing we
long for is a temptation from Satan to distract
us from obedience and make us discontent, or
something God actually wants to give us and
therefore wants us to pray for. There is no such
thing as something "too good to be true." God is
loving and lavishly generous and has promised to
give what is good--that is, what He who is
omniscient knows to be good for us.

So today I asked Him to give me the prayers He
wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything
according to his plan for me. Nothing is too big
to ask of Him, not even an ocean lot. It is God's
business to decide if it is good for me. It is my
business to obey Him.

"No good thing will He withhold from them that
walk uprightly" (Ps 84:11).