March 27th
Book Three, Chapter 49
Of the Desire of Eternal Life, and how Great are the Benefits Promised to Them That Fight

Ask not that which is pleasant and convenient, but that which is acceptable to Me and for My honor; for if you judge rightly, you ought to prefer and to follow My appointment rather than your own desire or any other desirable thing....You would wish to be already in the liberty of the glory of the children of God....But that hour is not yet come; for there is yet another time, a time of war, a time of labor and of probation.  You desire to be filled with the Sovereign Good, but you can not at present attain to it.  I am He: wait for Me, says the Lord, until the kingdom of God come.  You have yet to be tried upon earth and exercised in many things.  Take courage, therefore, and be valiant, as well in doing as in suffering things repugnant to nature.  You must put on the new man, and be changed into another person.