| Finding the Way |
Chapter 4 |
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It is not easy in this unspiritual world to keep the heavenly Guest in our heart day after day, year after year, to the end of life. Too many open to Him on the Lord’s Day, and then on Monday let in again the old worldly guests who drive out the Divine Spirit. We all know how easy it is to lose out of our hearts the gentle thoughts and holy desires and spiritual feelings which come to us in life’s quiet, sacred moments. You sit down with your Bible in the pure, sweet morning, and as you read the Master’s words it seems to you as if angles had come into your heart. You hear words of love spoken out of heaven in your ear. Desires kindled by the Spirit of God, desires for holy things, fill you. As you read and pray and meditate, it is as if you were sitting in the gate of heaven and hearing the songs of the holy beings gathered round God’s throne.
But half an hour later, you must go out into the world, where a thousand other voices will break upon your ears – voices of temptation, voices pleasure, voices of care and fret, the calls of business of friendship, of emotion – not all holy voices, many of them calling you away from God. How will you carry with you all the day, through all these distractions and all these allurements, the holy thoughts, feelings, and desires of the moments of devotion in the morning?
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