DESIRE TO SEEK GOD — Human Nature

appreciates the infi nite power of God. In the scent of a fl ower he fi nds the fragrance of God. In the fl ow of water he sees God’s bounty. The true believer is one who can see beyond the visible to comprehend the invisible. The diff erence between a believer and one who does not believe is that the latter is besotted by creation, while a believer rises above creation and discovers his Creator. The one who does not believe thinks that the beauty of created things is actually intrinsic to these things, and so he gets obsessed with them. On the other hand, a true believer sees the beauty of the Creator in the beauty of creation and surrenders himself to their Maker. The one who does not realize this prostrates before created things, while the one who realizes the truth prostrates before the Creator of all things. o Ease after Hardship There is no doubting the fact that failure in life usually results from the quest for immediate success. The word 'short-cut”'may be applicable to the world of roads and footpaths, but there are no short cuts in the struggles of life. Such is the order of nature. In this world just as ease always follows hardship, so fruitful results come only from arduous, painstaking processes.