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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 9

Walking With God, Trusting In God


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God knows the path of life we are treading¾ "We walk by faith and not by sight," for we cannot tell what a step may bring forth. We are like the Alpine traveler; through ravine and rock and forest we tread our way, now coming to a narrow ledge with the steep below us, and now to the flowery vale. Without God's upholding power unseen, we should stumble, and plunge ourselves into death. We must keep our eyes on the summit, and not look down; we must set our "affections on things above." Sometimes it is the treacherous mire of difficulty that obstructs our road; we do not know what to do for the best, but we set our feet firm on the stepping stones that break it, and get over the cares and toils that fret us, and would work our ruin. Sometimes the white mists of sorrow veil the glory of the future and blight over present hopes like the radiant landscape that disappears as the mists fall around them; but stili though hidden, God has not left us, and soon the sun shines out again with hopes of the brighter morrow, and floods our path with light - a glorious foretaste of that which shall crown our pathway in the Kingdom, when we shall, if found worthy, receive "the white pebble" (Rev. 2:17). To walk successfully along the rugged and oft stony path of life we must "walk circumspectly" avoiding evil and surmounting obstacles, and precisely as yonder tab by-cat is seen picking her way cautiously over the top of the broken glass on the stone wall. How carefully she moves along without the least slip - the soft padded paws receiving no hurt! She looks ahead and treads circumspectly. It is an homely object lesson enacted before our eyes, the import of which we must not miss. While "the wicked know not at what they stumble," the righteous are bold as a lion. They tread firmly and cautiously and thus succeed. -- Sis. A. Hopkins

 

 


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