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.
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
If you have problems of conduct that are difficult and hard to settle, I will furnish you with solutions, for I not only know matters of practice and duty, but I even know them beforehand.
Ponder just let it happen. It's because their minds are so often involved with deep and problematic matters, he told himself, that their mouths are allowed to wander around making a nuisance of themselves.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
While Eeyore frets ... ... and Piglet hesitates ... and Rabbit calculates ... and Owl pontificates ...Pooh just is.
Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.
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