One thing asked for: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of our life.
Thus imbued, thus instructed, thus educated from the law of God, seek one thing from the Lord, seek this. Nothing will be lacking, He will not deprive the good from those who walk in innocence. However, one is not innocent who is guilty in oneself. Why do you expect another to pity you, who perhaps have not yet learned it? Have mercy on your soul, pleasing to God. You wish that God would please you, but you do not wish to please God. In such a way, God cannot be pleasing to you. For then He would please you if He would support your iniquities! You thought wickedly, he says, that I would be like you. Have mercy on your soul, pleasing to God. It is not good that when you are turned away from the right, God should please you. Correct yourself. Do not wish to bend God to your will. Please God and God will please you. Be upright, lest you seek not only yourself but also God perverse. For you sit idly and shape God according to your desires. If God, he says, would do this! Oh, if He would do that! He will do nothing but good. But evildoers dislike God. How good is God to the upright in heart. Therefore let us seek one thing from the Lord, brothers. When I say to you, I say to myself. Let us all seek this one thing. Let us all hear this from the one. Let us seek one thing from the Lord, let us seek to dwell in the house of the Lord for all the days of our lives. All those days are one eternal day. When you hear: for all the days of my life, do not fear that these days will end. These days truly do not end because we do not desire a human day. Neither does one day stand with us, nor does one day last with us, all flee. Before it comes, it departs. Therefore, of this day of which we speak, how much has already passed. Nor do we hold the hour in which we are. It flees, and another comes, but even it does not stand but flees. What do you love? Comprehend what you love, hold what you love, have what you love. It neither stands nor permits standing. All flesh is grass, and all human glory is like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, the flower falls. All these things flee. Do you wish to stand? But the word of the Lord remains forever. Therefore in His Word that remains forever, stand and listen to Him, and with Him you will remain forever.