When a Roman soldier was told by his guide
that if he insisted on taking a certain journey
it would probably be fatal, he answered,
” It is necessary for me to go; it is not
necessary for me to live.”
This was depth. When we are convicted something
like that we shall come to something. The shallow
nature lives in its impulses, its impressions, its
intuitions, its instincts, and very largely its
surroundings. The profound character looks beyond
all these, and moves steadily on, sailing past all
storms and clouds into the clear sunshine which is
always on the other side, and waiting for the
afterwards which always brings the reversion of
sorrow, seeming defeat and failure. When God has
deepened us, then He can give us His deeper truths.
His profoundest secrets, and His mightier trusts.
Lord, lead me into the depths of Thy life and save
me from a shallow experience.
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