THE HUMAN HEART
It is a revelation of the human heart that we never thank God for what is good, but we blame Him for what is bad. We shut Him out of our plans and schemes but blame Him when they go wrong. We use our bodies He gave us for self-gratification in a thousand indulgences without reference to the Divine Will. We even treat the Divine Will with contempt, as if God had never spoken a word.
His commands are treated with less respect than Aesop’s fables but, when the body which was created for the Lord and as a temple for the Holy Spirit begins to crumble, because we have ignored the rights and instructions of its Creator, and by our rebellion we became the playthings of the Devil, then we complain.
We think much of our feeblest effort as good, no matter how tainted it is with self, and take without gratitude or humility the many blessings with which God gives us every day of our lives.
Little wonder that men cannot live with men when self-gratification and pride rule supreme. No man has a right estimate of God’s creatures and God’s creation has a wrong estimate of God.