‘Prone to wander, Lord I feel it… Bind my wandering heart to thee.’
The verses of this song ring so true. I am prone to leave the God I love. This is not something I, or you, suffer from alone. As Paul wrote in Romans 7:15 he states “For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” We know that our flesh and spirit are at war with each other to keep us from doing what we want to do. Galatians 5:17
But we are not lost and left there…wandering. In the verse prior (Galatians 5:16) it says to walk by the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
George Müller said the first business of the day was to have his soul happy in God. —So how do we do this? He goes on to answer that by saying– the food for the inner-man is the word of God. (paraphrased)