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Rise my soul! Thy God directs thee; Stranger hands no more impede: Pass thou on, His hands protect thee— Strength that has the captive freed. Light divine surrounds thy going; God Himself shall mark thy way: Secret blessings, richly flowing, Lead to everlasting day.The steps of a
good man are ordered by Jehovah. This is a vast and precious blessing.
… A young Christian may, in confiding zeal, not see so much the value
of this … but when one has seen the world, what a pathless wilderness
it is; it is beyond all price that the Lord directs our steps. If we look to Him
all is simple; we see our way clearly, and we have motives that do not
leave the soul a prey to uncertainty. It is the double-minded man who
is unstable in all his ways. It is an amazing
comfort for my soul to think that there is not a single thing all
through my life in which God as my Father has not a positive will about
to direct me … that I do not take a step but what His love has provided
for. The Lord guide
you … it is ever good to wait on Him, and not be in a hurry, or let our
own will work. “I waited patiently for the Lord” is a word of Christ’s
Himself, and He cares for us and directs in everything. I have no doubt
that if we kept close to Christ, His Spirit would guide us in our
intercourse with others. We are not always conscious of divine guidance
even when it is there; but the word comes from Christ to the souls we
have to say to, even if rejected. … But our part is to keep close to
Christ, so that it should be “not I, but Christ liveth in me,” and thus
He acts in our thoughts and ways without our, at the moment, thinking
of Him directly; but we always have the consciousness of speaking for
Him, and of His presence. The Spirit and
the word cannot be separated without falling into fanaticism on the one
hand, or into rationalism on the other—without putting oneself outside
the place of dependence upon God and of His guidance. The sheep know the voice of Christ, and if they have not got His voice they stop until they have. There is one voice they know. There are plenty of other voices, but they do not know them. Sheep are silly, stupid creatures; but they know the shepherd’s voice—that one voice. The moment Christ’s voice has reached me, it is enough; and this gives a peace and quietness in one’s path that nothing else does. It is not great wisdom or great strength that gives this, but it is hearing the Shepherd’s voice and knowing it. If not the shepherd’s voice, it is dreaded. “A stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him.” The Shepherd does not frighten. He gives strength and confidence; and His voice having once reached the heart, nothing else is needed. And, Saviour! ‘tis Thee from on high I await, till the time Thou shalt come To take him Thou hast led by Thine eye To
Thyself, in Thy heavenly home.
Pilgrim Portions - Meditations for the Day of Rest - Selected from the Writings, Hymns,
Letters, etc., of J. N. Darby SEDIN-Servicio Evangélico |
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