HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div
“They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.” (Psalm 107:4).
All who fight the Lord’s battles must be content to die to all the favourable opinions of men and all the flattery of human praise. You cannot make an exception in favour of the good opinions of the children of God. It is very easy for the insidious adversary to make this also all appeal to the flesh. It is all right when God sends us the approval of our fellow men, but we must never make it a motive in our life, but be content with the “solitary way” and the lonely “wilderness.”
All such motives are poison and taking away from you of the strength with which you are to give glory to God. It is not the fact that all that see the face of the Lord does see each other.
The man of God must walk alone with God. He must be contented that the Lord knoweth that God knows. It is such a relief to the natural man within us to fall back upon human countenances and human thoughts and sympathy, that we often deceive ourselves and think it “brotherly love,” when we are just resting in the earthly sympathy of some fellow worm!
A true servant of God walks alone with Him. Setting aside anything that is favourable to the world to be content with the things of God. God did it to Mod=ses and the prophets and it is nor new for us today. Rise and shine for the Lord has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon thee.
