If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of integrity, seeking divine guidance, and prioritizing spiritual truth over human opinion to avoid mistakes.
George Muller highlights the crucial alignment of honesty and uprightness in one's heart with the direction from God. He warns that neglecting these virtues and choosing human advice over divine instruction can lead to significant errors in judgment. This statement reflects the broader principle that true wisdom comes from a sincere relationship with the divine and a commitment to moral integrity over societal pressures.
In practice
During a church sermon about trusting divine guidance over human advice.
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.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
If you fixate on the worst-case scenario and it actually happens, you’ve lived it twice.
Leave your front door and your back door open. _x000D_ Allow your thoughts to come and go. _x000D_ Just don't serve them tea.
Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.
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