THE DIVINE GUIDANCE by A. J. Gordon

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1893

THE DIVINE GUIDANCE.

By A. J. Gordon

My hearers, if the Lord's business is made your principal business, I assure you that you will repeatedly have divine guidance in your Christian life. It may be direct or indirect; it may be sensible or insensible; but you will have it. Christ does not call us to be his servants, and then utterly neglect to give us any orders as to our work. Ah, the trouble is that we have not looked to him for our directions! Like wayward children we have chosen to work by our own plans instead of asking him to show us his plans. Let us resolve to take the position of sons, who are also servants. Many gentlemen Christians are there in the church and too few servant Christians. We make a polite call on God in the morning and leave our card in the shape of a few set phrases of worship and adoration, glad when the formality is over, that we may hasten about our business; but we do not stop to take our orders from him, asking, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Let us be ashamed that this has been so true in our case. Let us be able to say, morning by morning, "Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their master, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God." A serving attitude is the best prayer for the Spirit guidance. If only with bended knees and folded hands we pray, "Lead me, O God," we shall not lack the desired guidance.—Rev. A. J. Gordon, D.D.