"It
need not be said that to carry out convicton into action is a
costly sacrifice. It may make necessary renunciations and
separations which leave one to feel a strange sense both of
deprivation and loneliness. But he who will fly as an eagle goes
into the higher levels where cloudless day abides, and live in
the sunshine of God, must consent to live a comparatively lonely
life. No bird is so solitary as the eagle. Eagles never fly in
flocks: one, or at most two, and the two, mates, being ever seen
at once. But the life that is lived unto God, however it forfeits
human companionship, knows divine fellowship, and the child of
God who like his Master undertakes to
'do always the things that
please Him,'
can like
his Master say,
'The
Father hath not left me alone.'
'I am alone; yet not
alone, for the Father is with me.'
Whosoever will promptly follow whatever
light God gives, without regard to human opinion, custom,
tradition, or approbation, will learn the deep meaning of these
words:
'Then shall we know, if we
follow on to know the Lord.'"
From the 1899 biography of George
Mueller