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  DAILY CHECK
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The daily check is a habit of offering our troubles to the
Lord, accepting His will, and seeking to submit to His plan.

Topics: "Daily Devotion", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Psalm 138:7, Lamentations 3:22, Philippians 2:14, James 4:7

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Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of daily surrendering our
troubles to the Lord, accepting His will in all things, especially in
personal trials and vexations. She suggests a daily routine of offering
our struggles to God in the morning, reflecting on our submission
throughout the day, and seeking forgiveness and strength at night. This
practice serves as a check against developing a complaining, grumbling,
self-pitying spirit that hinders our spiritual growth.

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Though I walk in the midst of trouble, Thou wilt revive me.

PSALMS 138:7

IT is very helpful to make a habit of offering, morning by morning, the
troubles of the day just beginning to our dear Lord, accepting His will
in all things, expecially in all little personal trials and vexations.
Some persons have found great benefit from making, when first they wake,
the act taught to Madame de Chantal by St. Francis de Sales, accepting
"all things tolerable and intolerable" for love of Christ; then at
midday, a moment's inward search to see whether there has been any
voluntary slackening of submission, any deliberate opposition to God's
will, any hesitation in resisting the distaste or fretfulness, the
impatience or discouragement we are tempted to feel when things go
contrary to our own will and likings, making a fresh resolution to go on
heartily; and, at night, a quick review of the day's failures for which
to ask pardon, and strength to go on better anew. Some such habit as
this is a great check to that terrible hindrance of the spiritual life
which, terrible though it be, is so apt to steal upon many good and
earnest souls,--a complaining, grumbling, self-pitying spirit.

H. L. SIDNEY LEAR

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/daily-check/
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