If we forget this, and, despising reason, expect that every detail will be made plain to us in some super-rational manner, we may be snared either by anxiety or by an excessive quietism. Those who expect definite guidance to be guaranteed by some sign or some particular psychological character, may be unnecessarily distressed or remain inactive and quiescent because no sign comes. The divine influence is likely to be manifested first and foremost in the awakening of interests that are to shape our lives as a whole, and not in detailed suggestions to which an adequate response can be made the moment they arise in our minds. Street Y. Moments of insight and vision that should control the general direction of our lives may be given to us without a guarantee that just the same kind of spiritual assurance will accompany every word uttered or deed done in obedience to such vision. Like Moses, we have to play the man as seeing Him who is invisible.
Divine guidance comes supremely in such hours of insight.
Such moments are rare, in my experience. There are analogous moments when one suddenly sees the glory of people. It is in such moments that God reveals Himself to us, and gives us guidance for life. Happy are those warriors who get their marching orders early, and whose life-work is wrought along the plan that blessed their boyish thought. Thus the sight of a pauper's funeral determines a Harrow school boy to devote his life to uplifting the manhood of the poor.