Sometimes people get discouraged because they do not receive from the Lord the things they think they need. But nearly everyone knows what it is to think they need a certain thing at one time, and then to find later that it was a good thing they did not get what they desired at first.
The Lord wants to give us good things.
"If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him." (0Matthew 7:11)
When we ask in our ignorance for the stone or the scorpion, our heavenly Parent does not give us the evil thing, and afterwards we always find that He knew best.
It will save as much fretting and discontent if we remember that all the time He is giving us only the good things.--Present Truth, September 19, 1895.