GOD IS ALWAYS READY
NO one ought to think that it is difficult to come to Him,
though it sounds difficult and is really difficult at the beginning, and in
separating oneself from and dying to all things. But when a man has once entered
upon it, no life is lighter or happier or more desirable; for God is very
zealous to be at all times with man, and teaches him that He will bring him to
Himself if man will but follow. Man never desires anything so earnestly as God
desires to bring a man to Himself, that he may know Him. God is always ready,
but we are very unready; God is near to us, but we are far from Him; God is
within, but we are without; God is at home, but we are strangers. The prophet
saith: God guideth the redeemed through a narrow way into the broad road, so
that they come into the wide and broad place; that is to say, into true freedom
of the spirit, when one has become a spirit with God. May God help us to follow
this course, that He may bring us to Himself. Amen. (223)
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