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There are three kinds of giving: grudge giving, duty giving, and thanksgiving. Grudge giving says, “I have to”; duty giving says, “I ought to”; thanksgiving says, “I want to” (Robert Rodenmeyer).
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For this implicit faith and total resignation of ourselves to the adorable Providence of God, willing nothing but what he wills, and because he wills it, is a state of mind whose excellency I cannot represent to you; it...makes our weakness as serviceable to us as our strength... Let me, therefore, entreat you to put on this temper; to lay hold of it with all your might; to make everything you hear or see or find in yourself, the world, religion, or Providence, so many fresh occasions of committing yourself to God by a faith without any bounds, a resignation without any reserve.
William Law

Bible – English_World – Hebrews Chapter 3:1-19.

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3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;

3:2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also was Moses in all his house.

3:3 For he has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who built the house has more honor than the house.

3:4 For every house is built by someone; but he who built all things is God.

3:5 Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken,

3:6 but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.

3:7 Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

3:8 Don’t harden your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the trial in the wilderness,

3:9 Where your fathers tested me by proving me, And saw my works for forty years.

3:10 Therefore I was displeased with that generation, And said, ‘They always err in their heart, But they didn’t know my ways;’

3:11 As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.'”

3:12 Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;

3:13 but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today;” lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

3:14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:

3:15 while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice, Don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.”

3:16 For who, when they heard, rebelled? No, didn’t all those who came out of Egypt by Moses?

3:17 With whom was he displeased forty years? Wasn’t it with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?

3:18 To whom did he swear that they wouldn’t enter into his rest, but to those who were disobedient?

3:19 We see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.