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My Guide and Pilot, April 4
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go:
I will guide thee with mine eye.
Psalm 32:8
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Often the Christian life is beset with dangers, and duty seems hard to
perform. The imagination pictures impending ruin before, and bondage
and death behind. Yet the voice of God speaks clearly, Go forward....
Faith looks beyond the difficulties, and lays hold of the unseen, even
Omnipotence, therefore it cannot be baffled. Faith is the clasping of the
hand of Christ in every emergency.
Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on
board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons
push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite
man, or try to steer it themselves. Then disaster and wreckage generally
follow, and the Pilot is blamed for running them into such dangerous
waters. Do not commit yourselves into the keeping of men, but say,
“The Lord is my helper”; I will seek His counsel; I will be a doer of
His will.... It is as impossible for us to receive qualification from man,
without the divine enlightenment, as it was for the gods of Egypt to
deliver those who trusted in them.... Do not trust yourself to men. Act
under the divine Guide.
You have been chosen by Christ. You have been redeemed by the
precious blood of the Lamb. Plead before God the efficacy of that blood.
Say unto Him: “I am Thine by creation; I am Thine by redemption. I
respect human authority, and the advice of my brethren; but I cannot
depend wholly upon these. I want Thee, O God, to teach me. I have
covenanted with Thee to adopt the divine standard of character, and
make Thee my counselor and guide—a party to every plan of my life;
therefore teach me.” Let the glory of the Lord be your first considera-
tion.... Let every act of your life be sanctified by a holy endeavor to do
the Lord’s will, that your influence may not lead others into forbidden
paths.
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