Comments on: From pleasing to God into pleased with God http://www.befriendedstranger.com/bahai-faith/2008/05/02/from-pleasing-to-god-into-pleased-with-god/ Journaling my spiritual journey Thu, 12 Apr 2012 08:30:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Brent Poirier http://www.befriendedstranger.com/bahai-faith/2008/05/02/from-pleasing-to-god-into-pleased-with-god/comment-page-1/#comment-714 Brent Poirier Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:34:05 +0000 http://www.befriendedstranger.com/?p=183#comment-714 Dear Mitko: I think you are right, that being pleased with God is to accept His Will and His tests. Abdu'l-Baha writes: "Grieve not at the divine trials. Be not troubled because of hardships and ordeals; turn unto God, bowing in humbleness and praying to Him, while bearing every ordeal, contented under all conditions and thankful in every difficulty. Verily thy Lord loveth His maidservants who are patient, believing and firm. He draws them nigh unto Him through these ordeals and trials." (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Volume I, p. 51) The other thing is that one of the secrets of life is to be thankful, whatever comes. Again from Abdu'l-Baha, "Man must, under all conditions, be thankful to God, the One, for it is said in the blessed text: 'If ye be thankful I will increase thee.'" (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Vol. I, p. 67) and, "If thou dost act according to the commandments and exhortations of God, know thou for a certainty that the luminosity of thy face will day by day increase. Be thou happy and well pleased and arise to offer thanks to God, in order that thanksgiving may conduce to the increase of bounty." (Tablets of Abdu'l-Baha Abbas, Vol. II, p. 483) Here is a remarkable prayer, asking God to increase His bounty, which He said at the home of Phoebe Hearst: "He is God! O Lord! How shall we thank Thee! Thy bounties are limitless, and our gratitude but limited. How can the limited render thanks to the limitless? Incapable are we of offering thanks for Thy mercies. Utterly powerless, we turn unto Thy Kingdom, and beg Thee to increase Thy bestowal and bounty. Thou art the Giver, Thou art the Bestower, Thou art the Powerful." (H.M. Balyuzi, Abdu'l-Baha - The Centre of the Covenant, p. 307) Brent Dear Mitko:
I think you are right, that being pleased with God is to accept His Will and His tests. Abdu’l-Baha writes:
“Grieve not at the divine trials. Be not troubled because of hardships and ordeals; turn unto God, bowing in humbleness and praying to Him, while bearing every ordeal, contented under all conditions and thankful in every difficulty. Verily thy Lord loveth His maidservants who are patient, believing and firm. He draws them nigh unto Him through these ordeals and trials.” (Tablets of Abdu’l-Baha Abbas, Volume I, p. 51)
The other thing is that one of the secrets of life is to be thankful, whatever comes. Again from Abdu’l-Baha,
“Man must, under all conditions, be thankful to God, the One, for it is said in the blessed text: ‘If ye be thankful I will increase thee.’” (Tablets of Abdu’l-Baha Abbas, Vol. I, p. 67) and,

“If thou dost act according to the commandments and exhortations of God, know thou for a certainty that the luminosity of thy face will day by day increase. Be thou happy and well pleased and arise to offer thanks to God, in order that thanksgiving may conduce to the increase of bounty.” (Tablets of Abdu’l-Baha Abbas, Vol. II, p. 483)

Here is a remarkable prayer, asking God to increase His bounty, which He said at the home of Phoebe Hearst:

“He is God! O Lord! How shall we thank Thee! Thy bounties are limitless, and our gratitude but limited. How can the limited render thanks to the limitless? Incapable are we of offering thanks for Thy mercies. Utterly powerless, we turn unto Thy Kingdom, and beg Thee to increase Thy bestowal and bounty. Thou art the Giver, Thou art the Bestower, Thou art the Powerful.”
(H.M. Balyuzi, Abdu’l-Baha – The Centre of the Covenant, p. 307)

Brent

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