A Man Should Not Be Unduly Solicitous About His Affairs
The Voice of Christ
MY CHILD, always commit your cause to Me. I will dispose of it rightly in good time. Await My
ordering of it and it will be to your advantage.
The Disciple
Lord, I willingly commit all things to You, for my anxiety can profit me little. But I would that
I were not so concerned about the future, and instead offered myself without hesitation to Your
good pleasure.
The Voice of Christ
My child, it often happens that a man seeks ardently after something he desires and then when
he has attained it he begins to think that it is not at all desirable; for affections do not remain fixed
on the same thing, but rather flit from one to another. It is no very small matter, therefore, for a
man to forsake himself even in things that are very small.
A man’s true progress consists in denying himself, and the man who has denied himself is truly
free and secure. The old enemy, however, setting himself against all good, never ceases to tempt
them, but day and night plots dangerous snares to cast the unwary into the net of deceit. “Watch
ye and pray,” says the Lord, “that ye enter not into temptation.”39