![]() I cannot dwell in the sun, it is too bright a place for my residence, but I can walk in the light of the sun and so, though I cannot attain to that perfection of purity and truth which belongs to the Lord of hosts by nature as the infinitely good, yet I can set the Lord always before me, and strive, by the help of the indwelling Spirit, after conformity to his image. We are as truly in the light, we are as heartily in the light, we are as sincerely in the light, as honestly in the light, though we cannot be there in the same measure. The youthful artist, as he grasps his early pencil, can hardly hope to equal Raphael or Michael Angelo, but still, if he did not have a noble beau ideal before his mind, he would only attain to something very mean and ordinary.īut what is meant by the expression that the Christian is to walk in light as God is in the light? We conceive it to import likeness, but not degree. “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.”- 1 John 1:7Īs he is in the light! Can we ever attain to this? Shall we ever be able to walk as clearly in the light as he is whom we call “Our Father,” of whom it is written, “God is light, and in him is no darkness at all”?Ĭertainly, this is the model which is set before us, for the Saviour himself said, “Be ye perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect ” and although we may feel that we can never rival the perfection of God, yet we are to seek after it, and never to be satisfied until we attain to it. What a thought for thee, believer! God himself will receive thee to glory-thee! Wandering, erring, straying, yet he will bring thee safe at last to glory! This is thy portion live on it this day, and if perplexities should surround thee, go in the strength of this text straight to the throne. This is the unerring chart, the map in which every shoal is described, and all the channels from the quicksands of destruction to the haven of salvation mapped and marked by one who knows all the way.īlessed be thou, O God, that we may trust thee to guide us now, and guide us even to the end! After this guidance through life, the Psalmist anticipates a divine reception at last-”and afterward receive me to glory.” Happy are we to have God’s Word always to guide us! What were the mariner without his compass? And what were the Christian without the Bible? In his written Word thou hast this assurance in part fulfilled, for holy Scripture is his counsel to thee. Be assured that thy God will be thy counsellor and friend he shall guide thee he will direct all thy ways. There is a word for thee, O believer rest thou in it. ![]() ![]() He was sure that the Lord would not decline the condescending task. “Thou shalt,” is a blessed expression of confidence. The blind man leans on his friend’s arm and reaches home in safety, and so would we give ourselves up implicitly to divine guidance, nothing doubting assured that though we cannot see, it is always safe to trust the all-seeing God. ![]() He had just been discovering the foolishness of his own heart, and lest he should be constantly led astray by it, he resolved that God’s counsel should henceforth guide him.Ī sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. The Psalmist felt his need of divine guidance. “Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.”- Psalm 73:24
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