It is often useful to ask myself whence comes such a desire of mine, or such a thought of doing this or that. I have found that this alone decides more than half the difficulties that Christians may meet with. Two-thirds of those which remain are the result of our haste, and of our former sins. If a thought comes from God, and not from the flesh, then we have only to address ourselves to God as to the manner and means of executing it, and we shall soon be directed. 379