dmit our own
inability to decide wisely. Here is where oftentimes we fail to receive
God's wisdom. We think we are able to decide for ourselves or at least we
are not ready to admit our own utter inability to decide. There must be an
entire renunciation of the wisdom of the flesh.

2. _We must really desire to know God's way and be willing at any cost to
do God's will._ This is implied in the word "_ask_." The asking must be
sincere, and if we are not willing to do God's will, whatever it may be,
at any cost, the asking is not sincere. This is a point of fundamental
importance. There is nothing that goes so far to make our minds clear in
the discernment of the will of God as revealed by His Spirit as an
absolutely surrendered will. Here we find the reason why men oftentimes do
not know God's will and have the Spirit's guidance. They are not willing
to do whatever the Spirit leads at any cost. It is he that "_willeth to_
do His will" who shall know, not only of the doctrine, but he shall know
his daily duty. Men oftentimes come to me and say, "I cannot find out the
will of God," but when I put to them the question, "Are you willing to do
the will of God at any cost?" they admit that they are not. The way that
is very obscure when we hold back from an absolute surrender to God
becomes as clear as day when we make that surrender.

3. _We must definitely __"__ask__"__ guidance._ It is not enough to
desire; it is not enough to be willing to obey; we must _ask_, definitely
ask, God to show us the way.

4. _We must confidently expect guidance._ "Let him ask in faith nothing
doubting," There are many and many who cannot find the way, though they
ask God to show it to them, simply because they have not the absolutely
undoubting expectation that God will show them the way. God promises to
show it if we expect it confidently. When you come to God in prayer to
show you what to do, know for a certainty that He will show you. In what
way He will show you, He does not tell, but He promises that He will show
you and that is enough.

5. _We must follow step by step as the guidance comes._ As said before,
just how it will come, no one can tell, but it will come. Oftentimes only
a step will be made clear at a time; that is all we need to know--the next
step. Many are in darkness because they do not know and cannot find what
God would have them do next week, or next month or next year. A college
man once came to me and told me that he w