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0842, Two Ways to Be Unhappy

August 27, 2026 / 58:59/E31

Two Ways to Be Unhappy
Study Given by W. D. Frazee—July 1, 1960

[Singing]

“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the
LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.”
Psalm 1:1–2.

The happy man is the one who finds his delight, where? In the law of the
Lord. It makes him so happy that he, does what? Meditates in it, when? Day and
night. The more he enjoys it, the more he wants to meditate in it. The more he
meditates in it, the happier he is. He keeps working up and building up like an ever-ascending spiral. Blessed indeed is such a man.

Well, dear friends, those who are not acquainted with God’s law might wonder
how in ten comparatively short commandments (The ten words there’re called) there
could be enough to keep a person busy meditating even for a week, much less for a
lifetime. But ah, you and I know there is enough in those sacred commands to keep
us studying all through eternity, meditating day and night.

So this evening, I would like to share with you some thoughts of meditation
from one of those commandments—not the first but the last—the tenth. Turn to
Exodus 20 where we will notice the exact wording of this interesting commandment.
I would like to have you read it with me. Perhaps you all know it. I trust so.
Together:

“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not
covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his
maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy
neighbor’s” Exodus 20:17.

I suppose most people would say, if they were asked, that the Tenth
Commandment says, “Thou shalt not covet.” I would not quarrel with that because
thus Paul summarizes it in the New Testament. So we have an inspired example of
it.

Nevertheless, dear friends, I would like to suggest tonight that the expression,
“Thou shalt not covet,” is not all there is to the Tenth Commandment. In fact, it
would be easy to get a false impression. The Tenth Commandment does not forbid
coveting. If it did, Paul would be in contradiction when he tells us:

“Covet earnestly the best gifts” 1 Corinthians 12:31.

So there is a time when it is all right to covet. There are some things that it is
not only proper to covet, but we are urged to covet them. So, let us go back to the
Tenth Commandment and see if we can catch the thought of the divine mind as we
meditate on the law of the Lord:

It’s clear, isn’t it? The thing that we are not to covet is that which, what?
Belongs to somebody else. That’s it. You notice that in each case, as phrase after
phrase and clause after clause is give us here that it is made clear that what we are
not to covet is our neighbor’s. Each time, either the expression “thy neighbor” is
used or else the pronoun “his.” And of course, the antecedent of “his” is what? Thy
neighbor. So, there you have it.

Notice how God details it out: “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,
nor his ox, nor his ass.” And then to sum it up, He says, “Nor anything that is thy
neighbor’s.” If you do, you will break the commandment.

But there is plenty to covet that does not belong to thy neighbor at all. It is all
right to covet that.

And so tonight, friends, I would like to study with you for a little while on the
Tenth Commandment, or if you want a title for this little study tonight, it is “Two ways
to be unhappy.” Nearly all the world is made up of these two classes of people. The
first is made up of people who are unhappy because they are coveting what doesn’t
belong to them. They don’t have it. They wish they did, so they are unhappy. The
second class of people are those who have gotten it. That’s right. They coveted
what didn’t belong to them, and they got it, and that made them unhappy.

Remember this, whenever God tells us something, it’s to make us happy and
keep us from being unhappy. To put it very simply, the great reason that God
doesn’t want you to covet what belongs to your neighbor is this, it would make you
unhappy if you got it. It wasn’t made for you. It doesn’t fit you. It won’t fit you if you
get it. That’s true. If you doubt it, just study with me for a while tonight. And once
you are convinced of it, friends, it will take a great load off your shoulder and a great
worry off your heart, and there will come into your heart a new admiration for the
divine wisdom and divine love that’s back of that wisdom.

You see, we are individuals. We’ve studied that before. God made each one
of us by a separate pattern. There are no two of us alike. In making us that way,
God has made each one of us to like certain things and enjoy certain things. And
while it’s true that there are things in general that perhaps everybody, or at least
most everyone enjoys—let me tell you something, friends, there are hundreds,
thousands, yes millions of things that God has planned for you to enjoy personally
that belong to you in His infinite planning, for your infinite enjoyment through eternal

ages. That’s true. And in the ages to come, He is going to show the exceeding
riches of His kindness toward us.

But Heaven begins here in this world. Right here in this life, there are things
to make you happy that belong to you that were planned for you.

You know, sometimes when my wife and I are on a walk in the woodlands,
and we’ve been walking for a while, I say to her, “Well, perhaps we ought to go
back, but I wish we could go a little further and see if there isn’t some happy surprise
waiting for us. We’ll reach that and then go back.” And from time to time, I see that
there is something out there on that trail or on those uncharted areas, where
seemingly by chance, we might be wondering, and out there, sure enough, there it
is.

Just one experience comes to my mind just now that I haven’t thought of for a
week. A number of weeks ago, Brother Chambers and I were walking over a piece
of our property. Suddenly, we came upon a beautiful lily—a moccasin flower. It was
the first and only time I had ever seen one on these five hundred acres. There it
was, just beautiful. I made a note of where it was and took my wife back to see it.
And I am just foolish enough, friends, to think that God put it out there for me and the
few others who saw it, to enjoy it. And that God was willing to plan it years ago,
when someway, that plant got started, and watch it tenderly from year to year,
looking forward to the moment when, unexpectedly, I would come upon it. Yes, I
believe that. If that’s being simple and foolish, then I am foolish and simple. I
believe that.

I believe that all through my life, God has again and again brought me to
experiences little and big that He planned just for me and that He is going to do that
all through eternity.

I must say to you honestly, I’m very sorry that I ever coveted anything that
belongs to other folks. Because sometimes that wishing for something that wasn’t
mine made me very unhappy. I think that the deepest sorrow I ever had was getting
things that didn’t belong to me. I don’t mean doing things that would put me in the
penitentiary either. There are other ways to get things that were never intended for
you that fall far short of being within the kin of the law. But nevertheless, anyone
who gets what God never intended for him is missing a great deal of happiness and
likely taking hold of something that will only wound and grieve him.

And so tonight, our best friend says, “Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy
neighbor’s,” but covet the best gifts—those that were made for you; those that have
your name on them; those that were planned before you were ever born, and
arranged by a loving heart in Heaven’s purpose for you. Those are the things to
covet, friends. Oh, why should we miss those precious gifts that God is waiting to
bestow upon us?

You remember that figure in Bunyan’s allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress, at the
house of the interpreter that Christian saw, don’t you? The man with the muckrake,
the man in the cage—there he was working around in the straw. Every now and
then, he would uncover some glass bead or some other trinket and grin at it. He

would keep working with his muckrake, and Bunyan says that while all the while
there stood one above his head holding out a golden crown. But he couldn’t see it.
Why? He wasn’t looking that way. You remember that wonderful text:

“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
earth” Colossians 3:2.

Set your mind and love there. Covent earnestly the best gifts. I am thankful
that some of those heavenly gifts come down to earth, my friends. All our joys are
not in anticipation. Right here in this world, there are experiences of the deepest joy
for all who will let God plan their lives.

I want to ask you something, and please be honest—not with me, for I shall
not ask for your answer, but with yourself and God. Do you—watch this point—do
you first decide what you want, and then hope that God has planned it for you? Or,
do you first find out what God has planned for you and then allow yourself to be
drawn into an ever-growing desire for the thing which God has planned for you?
Which plan do you follow?

“Ah,” somebody says, “Brother Frazee, be practical. We want things, of
course, because we want them. And we don’t know whether they are planned for us
or not. We want them and hope it is so.”

I thought of the little girl whom someone was telling about, whose mother
heard her praying, “Please Lord, make Albany the capital of New Jersey.”

Her mother said, “Darling, why are you praying for the Lord to make Albany
the capital of New Jersey? “

She said, “Because that is what I wrote in my examination today.”

We smile at the absurdity of it. But do you know, friends, that over this world
tonight, there are hundreds if not thousands of people praying to God that God will
give them the person they want for their wife or husband? They have it all picked
out. They can tell you the name they have picked. It is Mary or Alice or Jenny or
George or John. “Oh Lord, please give me that one. Please give me that one!”

Why?

“Oh, I want him so much!” “I want her so much!”

And it leads to the place where people are fearful that their plans might be
interfered with, you understand. They are fearful that somebody is going to interfere
and intervene and stop it—either take the other one from them or keep them from
the one. Some people frankly even enough doubt about the matter that they even
fear to pray to God too much about it.

Of course, people have their different ideas about God. There are people
who think if they pray long enough and hard enough, they can get God to come
around to their thinking.

You remember a man by the name of Balaam. He prayed earnestly for
something that God wanted to have? Oh, no. What? Something he wanted. Peter
says he loved the wages of unrighteousness. That’s what he wanted—he wanted
the money, the property, the rewards that Balak was going to give him if he would
come and curse Israel. And he wanted it so much that instead of kneeling praying—
as a matter of fact, he didn’t even need to pray, did he? He just should have had
sense enough to say, “Of course not! I would think of cursing God’s people.” But if
he had prayed about it at all, he ought to have said, “Lord, help me to feel the way
You feel, and love what You love, and want what you want, and to not even want the
thing that You don’t want me to have.” That is what he should have prayed,
shouldn’t he? Wouldn’t it have kept him from a great deal of unhappiness and other
people too?

He disappointed Balak. He disappointed himself and went home a
disappointed, disillusioned man to think up some new and terrible plan to get what
he wanted, and he finally died in battle.

Do you see what I mean, friends, when I say there are two ways to be
unhappy? First, he wasn’t happy because he couldn’t go. Finally, he was unhappy
because he got to go and went. So either way, you’re unhappy if you covet
something that doesn’t belong to you. You will be unhappy until you get it, and then
you will be unhappy after you get it.

God says, “I want you to be happy. So please don’t covet what doesn’t
belong to you. Don’t. Don’t.”

Did you ever see children (and maybe grownup children too) sitting at a
Christmas party waiting for the presents to be passed out? I heard a friend telling
about a Christmas party he was at over 70 years ago and how there were certain
things he wanted and something that he set his heart on that he didn’t want at all. Of
course, he had no thought that he was going to get that it.

Well, poor little fellow, when the presents were passed out, he had the great
disappointment of seeing every present he wanted and that he had set his heart on,
passed out to others. Finally, his name was called, and the thing he didn’t want was
given to him. Yes.

So many experiences in life are like that for little children and older ones.
Why? Because they have this thing backward. They decide what they want and
then start coveting it and begging for it. If they are little enough, begging their
parents. When they get older, they may beg God or others. Or, if their minds are of
a different bent, instead of begging, they go to work to get it. They think that if they
want something, they have to go at it, and so they do. And most of the people in life
are spending their lives, friends, wanting this and that thing they have decided on.
Oh, how disappointed they are because they don’t get it or because they do. Either
way, it ends up in a disappointment.

This is the reason, friends, why there are so many unhappy people. This is it.
I want to read something interesting from the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page
309, in a comment on this Tenth Commandment:

Now watch:

“The Tenth Commandment strikes at the very root of all sins”
Patriarchs and Prophets, page 309.

You remember what John the Baptist said about the axe, don’t you?

“And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees”
Matthew 3:10.

Well, this is the root, friends. And the Gospel axe is being put tonight, where?
At the root.

“The Tenth Commandment strikes a the very root of all
sins, prohibiting the selfish desire, from which springs the
sinful act” Patriarchs and Prophets, page 309.

Where does the sinful act come from? The selfish desire. Do you know what
a selfish desire is? It is wanting anything except what God intended you to have.
That’s selfishness. That’s right, just plain selfishness.

“He who in obedience to God’s law refrains from indulging
even a sinful desire for that which belongs to another will not
be guilty of an act of wrong toward his fellow creatures” Ibid.

Friends, isn’t that wonderful, friends? Do you want to be kept from sinning, as
well as sorrow and sadness? Well, here it is. Just quit this coveting business. But
you will have to go deep because this lies deep—it lies in the heart. Many of the
other commandments have to do with the outward act (although, of course, it
reaches to motive), but this Tenth Commandment is dealing entirely with what’s
down underneath—the thoughts, the motives, the desires, the wants.

May I say, friends, I hope everyone is listening. Do you know that parents
start early in life planting this very germ of covetousness in the little child? You say,
“How.” Of course, I know that it’s there naturally anyway, but that’s all the more
reason for not planting anymore. It is this perpetual catering to the wants and whims
and desires of children who don’t have wisdom enough to make the decisions that
are thrown at them. They are asked, “What would you like about this,” and “What
would you like about that,” and “ What would you like about something else?” They
are asked what food they want. Later on, they are asked about what books they
want to read; what school they want to go to. What they want for this and that and

the other thing. Some are even asked what work they would like to do around the
house, and the rest of the members of the household govern themselves
accordingly. If the little princes and princesses should condescend to select certain
employment, father and mother will take what’s left you understand. I tell you,
friends, it is planting covetousness down into that child.

Do you know what the child should be tought to desire? To please his
parents. That’s it. It is that simple. We’re told in plain language that to the child, the
parents stand in the place of God. What should a Christian want when he comes to
God in prayer? Is God a glorified Santa Clause? I would not be irreverent, friends,
but is prayer a Christmas checklist? Please send me this, that, and the other thing.
Or, should prayer be the sincere endeavor to have the heart emptied of all our selfish
desires until in sincerity we can pray, “Lord, I have come to You to find out what one
thing—what do You want”?

I say, how are our children going to learn that if day by day and hour by hour
the great question is, what do they want? And it doesn’t make them happy. Why?
For the simple reason (just as we older ones, if we are honest, we will have to admit)
that they don’t know what they want. Neither do you, friends. But I’ll tell you, friends,
God will give you the wisdom to know what He wants you to do if you seek Him. And
He will give you the wisdom to find out what will please your child if you will study the
Bible, Child Guidance, Ministry of Healing, and Adventist Home instead of asking the
little darlings, “Pray, tell me what would you like about this and that and the other
thing.” Let’s put that away, my friends. Oh, et us, for Jesus’ sake, come back to
primitive godliness—the Bible plan of raising our children. What do you say? Let all
the congregation say amen.

Let me hasten to add, that doesn’t make them unhappy. Oh, no, it’s to keep
them from being unhappy. That’s the whole purpose of it. That’s what it’s for.
That’s God’s way. And God knows that if we follow His way, then we can be happy
and help others to be happy.

Now, I want you to notice another comment on this:

“Covetousness is an evil of gradual development”
Patriarchs and Prophets, page 496.

What’s that word that has to do with time, there? “Gradual.” What does that
mean? It means that it takes time.

“Covetousness is an evil of gradual development”
Ibid.

This chapter is telling about Achan’s experience. You remember the story
there about the taking of Jerico. God told the children of Israel not to take one thing
from that city. Is that right? They were not to touch the gold or silver. It was to be
devoted to the sanctuary. And everything that could be burned was to be burned up.
But one man out of all those thousands of people who allowed himself to do, what?
To covet.

He told the story himself afterward. He said, “When I saw all the spoils, that
golden wedge, and that goodly Babylonish garment…” even in that solemn hour of
confession, his tongue rolled over the expression, “that goodly Babylonish garment.”
Goodly! If he had really been convicted, he would have said, “that cursed thing.”
But oh, he still wanted it, didn’t he? So he said, “When I saw that gold and that silver
and that garment, I coveted them.” Then what? “Then I took them.” But Achan had
been building for years that covetous disposition. He had been allowing himself to
want things that God never intended, and he finally comes to the tragic hour when he
would lay his hands upon holy things, my friends, that had been consecrated to God
and that men were forbidden to touch for themselves. Of course, that meant stealing
and concealing, hiding them in the tent until the whole camp of Israel was under the
curse, and 36 men died on the attack on Ai. All because of one man’s, what?
Covetousness. Covetousness is an evil of gradual development.

When we think of sacred things that have been devoted to God, we think of
something sacred that God has devoted to Himself down through the ages. What is
it? The tithe. Is that still sacred? There has been running through my mind these
four little words as I have been meditating on the Tenth Commandment. Now, you
listen for the four little words. I will have to go back, so you get the antecedents:

“Let none feel at liberty to retain their tithe, to use according
to their own judgment. They are not to use it for themselves
in an emergency, nor to apply it as they see fit, even in what
they may regard as the Lord’s work.

“The minister should, by precept and example, teach the
people to regard the tithe as sacred. He should not feel that
he can retain and apply it according to his own judgment
because he is a minister. It is not his” Testimonies for the
Church, Volume 9, page 247 (underlining supplied).

There are the four little words, “it is not his.” Will you say them with me? “It is
not his.” What is the “it” there? The tithe. What’s the “his”? The minister. Oh, can’t
a minister, then, take people’s tithe and put it where he thinks it is best? No. Why
not? It isn’t his. Well, it’s the man who gave it to him, isn’t it? No, it isn’t his either.
Whose is it? It’s God’s. Has God told us what to do with it? Sure.

“Bring ye all the tithes into the…”

What?

“…storehouse, that there may be meat in Mine house”
Malachi 3:10.

God has a treasure. The tithe is to be put into that treasure.

I came across something interesting just a few weeks ago. I was looking for
something else entirely and didn’t know this was here. This is in a little book of
special testimonies that one of our dear ministers gave me a few years ago:

“You who have been withholding your means from the cause
of God, read the book of Malachi. Unworthy ministers may
receive some of the means, but dare anyone because of this
withhold from the treasury and brave the curse of God? I
dare not. I pay my tithe gladly and freely, saying, as did
David, ‘Of Thine own have we given Thee.’ Act your part my
brothers and sisters. God loves you, and He stands at the
helm. If the conference business is not managed according
to the order of the Lord, that is the sin of the erring ones.
The Lord will not hold you responsible for it if you do what
you can to correct the evil. But do not commit sin yourselves
by withholding from God His own property”
Special Testimonies, Series A, Number 1, page 27.

A wonderful statement, isn’t it, friends? You see that Achan’s problem was
that he dared step into something that God told him not to touch. I suppose that he
thought like this, “Well, it’s all going to go to waste anyway, and I just as well might
have some of it.”

But the central point is, and never miss it, that coveting is wanting what
doesn’t belong to us. That’s all there is to it. If it belongs to you, it’s all right to covet
it. Anything that’s yours, you can covet anything, but don’t covet anything that is
your neighbor’s because if you do, you are breaking God’s commandment and
getting ready for sorrow.

I was about to say that I wish money was all there is to this coveting problem.
It would still be a big problem, wouldn’t it? The love of money is the root of all kinds
of evil (1 Timothy 6:10). But there are a great many things that people are coveting
besides money.

I mentioned earlier about life’s companionship. Most of the courtship and
marriage that is going on today is based on coveting, friends. It is an expression of
coveting. Let me give an example:

“A young man who enjoys the society and wins the
friendship of a young lady unknown to her parents, does not
act a noble Christian part toward her or toward her parents…
Marriages contracted under such influences are not
according to the word of God. He who would lead a
daughter away from duty, who would confuse her ideas of
God’s plain and positive commands to obey and honor her
parents, is not one who would be true to the marriage
obligations…

“‘Thou shalt not steal,’ was written by the finger of God upon
the tables of stone; yet how much underhand stealing of
affections is practiced and excused”
Messages to Young People, page 445.

Yet, do you know, my friends, that Satan has so captivated the mind of the
people of this world that they have a proverb, not from the Bible? From the “book” of
worldly maxims, “All the world loves a lover.” What does that mean? It means that
young people, apart from parental counsel and contrary to parental wishes, engage
in courtship and marriage. Usually, they have the sympathy of the community
around them instead of the sharp disapproval which would reflect the disapproval of
Heaven.

Why is that? Because people don’t understand the subject I’m talking about
tonight.

Thou shall not covet anything that is thy neighbor’s. And if a young man is
looking for a wife, he must remember that there is not any girl in this world who
doesn’t belong to someone. If he is looking for one, he had better first find out from
God who God has intended for him. And he had better find out from the guardian of
the woman whether or not he has permission. Is that right? That’s in harmony with
these principles.

If people would practice it that way, friends, oh, what a world of sorrow would
be missed. Because it isn’t that God and guardians are trying to keep young people
from being happy. It is just the opposite. They are trying to keep them from being
unhappy. And all along the shores of life, you can see the wrecks of the lives of
young people who were so afraid that someone was going to interfere with what they
wanted, and so they got it. And some of the poor little things don’t have any better
sense than, after it’s all done, to say, “See, we did it!” Why sure, friends, God in
Heaven is usually going to let people get what they want if they’re determined
enough to have it.

But He can’t put His blessing upon what He has forbidden, what He has not
planned. Rather, how Jesus and angels must weep as men and women deliberately
turn from that which God has planned and choose to paddle their own canoe and
guide their own frail bark over life’s stormy waters, all the while missing the most
precious experience.

“Ah but,” someone says, “I think that unless I do something about getting what
I ought to have, I just won’t get it. I think that if I just lie down and wait—whether it’s
in the matter of making a living, getting money, or whether it’s in the matter of getting
a companion, or whether it’s in the matter of getting a position—many people think
that it’s up to them.

So they quote another proverb (and again, one that isn’t in the Bible), “God
only helps those who help themselves.” So they proceed to help themselves quite
liberally. But ah, how many precious providences are missed as people get what
they are determined to have instead of what God intended.

That can be true even in what God wants people to eventually have. Let’s
look at Jacob for an example. God had told his mother before the twins were born
that the elder would serve the younger. Jacob was the younger, and he was to have
the blessing. God knew all about that before they were born, and Jacob was told
that as he grew up.

But you remember that when the day came when Rebecca heard Isaac laying
his plans to give the blessing to whom? Esau. She communicated what she had
heard to Jacob, and together, friends, they hatched a scheme. What for? To help
Jacob get what Jacob and Rebecca wanted him to have and what God had
promised. To help God do it, you understand.

Did they help? Oh friends, no, they didn’t help! They started out with evasion
and camouflage and ended up with plain lying. That led on to having to flee, and
Rebecca and her son were separated, never to see each other again. Think of the
long trail of agony that Jacob followed there in that far country and even when he
came back. Why? Simply because people could not learn to wait on God.

I want to read you a beautiful text. Oh, I love this text! And I know that you
will love it too:

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is
from Him” Psalm 62:5.

Put a ring around the word “only” in your notes.

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is
from Him” Psalm 62:5.

What does that mean? Oh, that means, friends, that God is the is the only
one who knows what I want. I don’t even know myself. I think that I know
sometimes. But oh, if wait upon God, I know that He will give me what I really hope
for—what I really expect. So, I’m going to wait for Him.

Is it worth waiting for, friends? Oh, yes. Listen friends, if you take that
attitude, you don’t have to fight and battle with the people of this world. You don’t
have to run and grab something before somebody else gets it. Why no. If it belongs
to them, why should you run to get it before they do? And if it belongs to you, and
you do what God wants you to do, you’ll have it at the right time.

Couldn’t Jacob have gotten that blessing eventually if he had let Esau go
ahead that day and apparently get it? Wouldn’t God have arranged it at the right
time? Do you see? He didn’t have to grab for it.

God never makes it necessary for you to get into a contest and rivalry and
competition in order to grab some money someone else is going to get, or some
position that someone else is going to get, or some life’s companion that someone
else is going to get. No, friends. Don’t get in the race. You might get beaten. But
that isn’t the worse of it. You might win—that’s worse.

What God wants you to have, you can have without battling with flesh and
blood, without grabbing from someone else. You don’t have to borrow the Devil’s
weapons to work out the will of Heaven.

“My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is
from Him” Psalm 62:5.

Serene I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for winds nor tide nor sea;
I rave no more against time or fate,
For lo, mine own shall come to me.

I stay my haste, I make delay,
For what avails this eager pace?
I stand amid the eternal waves,
And what is mine shall know my face.

The stars come nightly to the sky,
The tidal wave unto the sea;
Nor time nor space nor deep nor high
Can keep my own away from me.

Ah friends, God is good! [Elder Frazee with tears in his voice] God is
wonderful. You know, I think of an experience I saw a dear woman have right on this
place. It was the first little institute session we ever had 16 years ago this summer
[1944]. The conference loaned us some tents, and we pitched them down under the
pine trees across from where the sanitarium is now.

Different ones came. Among them was a woman who graduated from a state
university. After reaching adult life, she accepted this message. She came and
studied with us these beautiful principles and motivation—of love as the great motive
instead of rivalry and competition. As she studied, a great vision dawned upon her
soul, and a great peace came into her heart.

She told me her experience later. She said, “Brother Frazee, all my life, I
have been pushed and prodded. I was a good student. My parents wanted me to
be at the head of my class and have straight A’s. I did, but I was always under that
pressure of getting ahead and being ahead; being at the top, and being an honor
student; being this, being that, and being the other thing. It just about wore me out.”
And she said, “Now I find that I don’t have to do that anymore. I can just do my best
and believe that what God wants me to do, He’ll arrange, and the place God wants
me to fill He’ll arrange. Ah, that is wonderful!”

I thank God, friends, it is wonderful! I thank God!

I rave no more against time or fate,
For lo, mine own shall come to me.

May we bow our heads in prayer?

Our precious Lord, we thank Thee tonight for the simplicity of faith and love.
We thank Thee with all our hearts tonight that these Ten Commandments are ten
promises. With joy we ask Thee to fulfill Thy promise to each one of us, “Thou shalt
not covet anything that is our neighbor’s.” Fulfilling Thy promise, keep us from

coveting. Keep us from even allowing one desire for that which is not ours. Then, fill
our hearts with the earnest coveting, the deep yearning for that which belongs to us,
that which is Thy plan, Thy design for us in every phase of life. Thus may we make
Thee happy, in Jesus’ name, amen.

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