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.
Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.
We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?
For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.
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