To go back from God is to desert Him.
It is to turn away the footsteps of our heart from Him.
It is to doubt the vision we have had of Him in our more intense and illumined moments.
To determine that whatever comes, we shall not go back from God, is one of the open secrets of the saints.
To cling to Him when life is difficult and we are tempted to question if He cares;
To believe in Him with a simple childlike faith when clouds and darkness hide His throne...
This is one of the triumphs of the spirit which makes the humblest life a thing of victory and brings it to the sunrise at the end.
When Mallory and Irvine were last seen climbing Everest, they were "going strong for the top."
From that top, a thousand feet above them, nothing could turn them back.
What a great victory it would be for all of us were we to say, like these heroic climbers, So we shall not go back from Thee.
~George H. Morrison~