We take some false step: we get into trying circumstances in consequence; and then, instead of meekly bowing down under the hand of God, and seeking to walk with Him, in humbleness and brokenness of spirit, we grow restive and rebellious; we quarrel with the circumstances, instead of judging ourselves; and we seek, in self-will, to escape from the circumstances, instead accepting them as the just and necessary consequence of our own conduct.