Great Hope - Songs of Deliverance
"He
will keep the feet of His
saints."
-I
SAMUEL 2:9 [KJV]
The
Lord sees His poor scattered pilgrims travelling through a vale of
tears, journeying through a waste howling wilderness, a path beset
with gins, traps, and snares in every direction. How can they escape?
Why, the Lord keeps their feet, carries them through every rough
place, as a tender parent carries a little child; when about to fall,
graciously lays the everlasting arms underneath them, and when
tottering and stumbling, and their feet ready to slip, mercifully
upholds them from falling altogether. Thus the Lord keeps the feet of
His saints.
But
do you think that He
has not different ways for different feet? The God of creation has
not made two flowers, nor two leaves upon a tree alike; and will He
cause all His
people to walk in precisely the same path? No; we have each our path,
each our besetment, each our trials, each peculiar traps and snares
laid for our feet. And the wisdom of the allwise and only-wise God is
shewn by His eyes
being in every place, marking the footsteps of every pilgrim, suiting
His remedies to
meet their individual case and necessity, appearing for them when
nobody else could do them any good; watching so tenderly over them,
as though the eyes of His
affection were bent on one individual; and carefully noting the
goings of each, as though all the powers of the Godhead were
concentrated on that one person to keep him from harm.
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C. Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
February
25th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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