When two parties find themselves in presence of each other, the one who has any superiority ought to take the lead, and be waited upon. But instead of waiting upon God to find out what He has done, we often go before Him, and so find that we come into direct collision with what He has done. When our hearts were first awakened, before we knew Christ, we thought something had to be done, and set to work and labored three, four, or seven years, and at last we found that all our labor had taken for granted that Christ had not died, had not suffered upon the cross, and that we were competent to do what only the Son of God could do-settle the question of sin in the presence of a holy God. We had not taken our place as owning God alone, casting everything before Him to see what He would do.
(G. V. W.)