The natural mind is ever prone to reason, when we ought to believe; to be at work, when we ought to be quiet; to go our own way, when we ought steadily to walk on in God's ways, however trying to nature.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of faith and surrendering to a higher power instead of relying solely on human reasoning.
George Muller illustrates a common struggle of the human mind: the tendency to overthink and seek control when, instead, one should have faith and follow a divine path. He points out that in moments of difficulty, rather than attempting to rationalize or force our own solutions, we should find solace in trusting God's guidance and walking in accordance with His will, despite the challenges that may arise.
In practice
In a sermon about the importance of faith during challenging times.
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.
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
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