_John 5:39._ FOR *my thoughts are not your* thoughts, *neither are your your ways* my ways, saith the Lord. FOR as the heavens are higher than the earth, *so are my ways higher than your ways*, and my thoughts than your thoughts. _Isaiah 55:8-9._ THEN shall we know, *if we follow on* to know the Lord. _Hosea 6:3._ Excuses. *I can’t see my way CLEAR.* Listen to what *God says in His Word* and seek to follow *divine instruction*, and you *will* see. THEN spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that *followeth me shall not walk in darkness*, but *shall have* the *light* of *life*. _John 8:12._ TRUST in the Lord *with all thine heart*; and lean not unto thine own understanding. *In all thy ways acknowledge him, and* he shall *direct thy paths*. Be not wise in thine own eyes: *fear the Lord, and depart from evil*. _Proverbs 3:5-7._ IF the Son therefore shall make you free, *ye shall be free indeed*. _John 8:36._ AND I will bring the *blind by a way that they knew not*; I will *lead* them in *paths* that they have not *known*: *I* will make *darkness light* before them, and *crooked things straight*. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. _Isaiah 42:16._ AND this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and *men loved darkness* rather than light, *because their deeds were evil*. _John 3:19._ BUT the *natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are* foolishness unto him: *neither can he know them*, because they are *spiritually discerned*. _I Corinthians 2:14._ BUT as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God *hath revealed them* unto us *by his Spirit*: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. _I Corinthians 2:9-10._ Illustration: Mark 9:20-29. Excuses. *My heart is TOO HARD.* If you have a *hard heart*, that is just why you ought to come to Christ because the Lord wants to give you a *new heart*. A NEW heart also will I give you, and a *new* spirit will I put within you: and I will *take away the stony heart* out of your flesh, and I *will give you a heart of flesh*.