God is pleased continually to vary His mode of dealing with us, in order that we may not be tempted to trust in donors, or in circumstances, but in Him alone, and to keep our eye fixed upon Him.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that God intentionally changes how He interacts with us to encourage reliance on Him rather than on people or situations.
George Muller emphasizes that the variability in how God engages with us serves a purpose; it prevents us from depending on external sources, such as donors or our circumstances, and instead encourages a steadfast focus on God Himself. This reliance fosters faith and trust in divine providence over human interventions.
In practice
This quote can be used in a sermon to illustrate the importance of trusting in God amidst life's uncertainties.
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition.
The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray.
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
I desire many things concerning myself; but I desire nothing so much, as to have a heart filled with love to the Lord. I long for a warm personal attachment to Him.
The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.
To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.
I do not quote from the scriptures;_x000D_ I simply see what I see.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.
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