After you have done what you think God led you to do, do not be always going back and wondering whether you did the right thing. You will get into a morbid state if you do. If you really wished to do God’s will and sought His guidance, and did what you thought He guided you to do, you may rest assured you did the right thing, no matter what the outcome has been. Satan is bound that we shall not be happy, cheerful Christians if he can prevent it, but God wishes us to be happy, cheerful, bright Christians every day and every hour. He does not wish us to brood but to rejoice (Phil. 4: 4). A most excellent Christian man came to me one Monday morning in great gloom over the failures of the work of the preceding day. He said to me, “I made wretched work of teaching my Sunday-school class yesterday.” I said, “Did you honestly seek wisdom from God before you went to your class?” He said, “I did.” I said, “Did you expect to receive it?” He said, “I did.” “Then,” I said, “in the face of God’s promise what right have you to doubt that God did give you wisdom?” (James 1: 5-7). His gloom disappeared and he looked up with a smile and said, “I had no right to doubt.” Let us learn to trust God. Let us remember that if our wills are surrendered to Him He is ever more willing to guide us than we are to be guided. Let us trust that He does guide us at every step and even though what we do does not turn out as we expected, let us never brood over it but trust God. Let us walk in the light of simple trust in God. In this way we shall be glad and peaceful and strong and useful at every turn of life.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The author has given some of the proofs that the Bible is the Word of God in his book, “Talks to Men.”
[2] If any reader desires more full and definite instruction on the subject of prayer he is referred to the author’s book, “How to Pray.”
[3] The author has written a little book on this line named “How to Bring Men to Christ” that has proved helpful to many.
[4] The author’s book, “How to Work for Christ,” is a large work describing at length many ways of working for our Master.