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  LOOKING TO GOD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: When we trust in God, we experience happiness and joy in all
aspects of our lives, from our daily comforts to our daily duties.

Topics: "Trusting God", "Eternal Joy"
Scripture References: Psalm 16:11, Proverbs 16:20, Romans 15:13, Philippians 4:4, 1 Peter 1:8

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the happiness found in trusting the
Lord, emphasizing that when God is our ultimate focus and we can declare
Him as our God, everything in life takes on new meaning and joy. Daily
comforts become opportunities for thanksgiving, challenges are seen as
tenderly designed by God for our growth, and even the simplest tasks
hold deep significance when done in acknowledgment of God's love. The
earth, the air we breathe, and the sun shining above all become
reminders of God's encompassing love. Through faith, hope, and love, we
experience a foretaste of the eternal joy awaiting us in the presence of
our Almighty God.

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Whoso trusteth in the Lord, happy is he.

--PROVERBS 16:20

THIS world of ours is a happy world, so that God is our end, so that we
can say to Him, "Thou art my God." Then everything takes new hues of joy
and love. Our daily comforts have a soul in them, for they abound in
thanksgiving; our daily infirmities or crosses have a special joy in
them, because they are so tenderly fitted to us by the medicinal hand of
our God; the commonest acts of life are full of deep in.terest, because
their end is God; daily duties are daily joys, because they are
something which God gives us to offer unto Him, to do to our very best,
in acknowl.edgment of His love. It is His earth we walk on; His air, we
breathe; His sun, the emblem of His all-pene.trating love, which
gladdens us. Eternity! Yes, that too is present to us, and is part of
our joy on earth. God has given us faith to make our future home as
certain to us, as this our spot of earth; and hope, to aspire strongly
to it; and love, as a foretaste of the all-surrounding, ever-unfolding,
Almighty love of our own God.

--E. B. PUSEY

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/looking-to-god/
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