Streams in the Desert January 7 Daily Devotional

I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content (Phil.4:11).
Paul, denied of every comfort wrote the above words in his dungeon.
A story is told of a king who went into his garden
one morning, and found everything withered and dying. He asked the oak that stood near the gate what the trouble was. He found it was
sick of life and determined to die because it was not tall and
beautiful like the pine. The pine was all out of heart because it
could not bear grapes, like the vine. The vine was going to throw its life away because it could not stand erect and have as fine
fruit as the peach tree. The geranium was fretting because it was not talk and fragrant like the lilac; and so on all through the
garden. Coming to a heartsease, he found its bright face lifted as cheery as ever. "Well, heartsease, I'm glad, amidst all this
discouragement to find one brave little flower. You do not seem to
be the least disheartened." "No, I am not of much account but I thought that if you wanted an oak, or a pine, or a peach tree, or a lilac, you would have planted one; but as I knew you wanted a heartsease, I am determined to be the best little heartsease
that I can."
Others may do a greater work, But you have your part to do;
And no one in all God's heritage Can do it so well as you.
They who are God's without reserve, are in every state content; for they will only what He wills, and desire to do for Him whatever He desires them to do; they strip themselves of everything, and in
this nakedness find all things restored and hundredfold.