Many people want to direct God instead of surrendering themselves to be directed by Him. They want to show Him the way instead of submissively following where He leads. MADAME GUYON

I said, “Let me walk in the field”; God said, “No, walk in the town”; I said, “There are no flowers there”; He said, “No flowers, but a crown.”

I said, “But the sky is black, There is nothing but noise and din”; But He wept as He sent me back, “There is more,” He said, “there is sin.”

I said, “But the air is thick, And smog is veiling the sun”; He answered, “Yet souls are sick, And your work is yet undone.”

I said, “I will miss the light, And friends will miss me, they say”; He answered me, “Choose tonight, If I am to miss you, or they.”

I pleaded for time to be given; He said, “Is it hard to decide? It will not seem hard in Heaven To have followed the steps of your Guide.”

I cast one look at the field, Then set my face to the town; He said, “My child, do you yield? Will you leave the flowers for the crown?”

Then into His hand went mine, And into my heart came He; And I walk in a light Divine, The path I had feared to see.

GEORGE MACDONALD

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.—Good and upright is the Lord : therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.—Having . . . boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; and having an high priest over the house of God; let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord .—All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.