and that are affecting your ground. And if ground is left alone, and
just walked over, and not cared for, it becomes the wayside. It
becomes hard and the seed can no longer penetrate, and that which
is in it dies, or never germinates. So we have a great labor to do,
my brothers and sisters. We must continue to care for our ground
carefully. And we must have patience.
our position in life, with our status, with the amount of money we
make, with the difficulties we are encountering. We must not
curse God or say that we should have this or we should have that.
This is one kind of patience.
God to work! It takes time for Him to work. We do not know how
much time we have, but the time we have is what God has allotted
to us. He is going to use every moment of that time to perfect us.
So, if we have trouble with our sins, if there is something that we
fall into every day, then EVERY day repent of it, and be patient!
Be manly in spirit, and do not be like a child and run away from
that sin, or rather, run away from the knowledge of that sin, since it
will always be with you until you conquer it. Confront it! Confront
it with sword and with shield, and with buckler, and with faith.
a man struggles to know to know GodÁ-?s commandments, He will
reveal them. This is absolutely certain, because in your struggling,
you will be doing His commandments.
However, be careful not to judge yourself. This is a hard lesson,
that takes us a long time to learn Á-? to not judge ourselves, and look
at the sins we are doing and to say we can never do better. Well, in
some things we do better, and in some things, God help us and