Now, beloved, if the divine government is a disturbing element, to be undisturbed is to be God forsaken. If we know nothing of the voice calling us to alter plans and set aside arrangements and simply step out upon the divine word in faith as Abraham did, then we are God forsaken men and women. Beyond that, to be God forsaken is to settle to failure.
“Oh,” you say, “let me stay here; my home is so comfortable, I am so happy.”
God says: “Move from this place and go yonder.”
You say: “I cannot. Let me remain where I am.”
What are you asking? You are asking for your own breakdown and failure. God’s plan for you is progress, growth; and you are asking for arrested development and for failure.
“Oh no,” you say, “I am only asking not to be disturbed.”
They are the same things. When you and I pray, in our foolishness, that God will not disturb us, we ask Him to give us no more progress, but to let us settle where we are and pass down to failure.
—George Campbell Morgan, THE TRUE ESTIMATE OF LIFE AND HOW TO LIVE IT, p. 69-70
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