| The Beauty of Self Control |
Chapter 4 |
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Then Christ is able to guide us. The world is a great mass of tangled paths. They run everywhere, crossing each other in all directions. Hands are forever beckoning us here and there, and we know not which beckoning to follow. Even friendship, loyal as it may be, sincere and sympathetic as it is, lacks wisdom and may guide us mistakenly. There is One only whose wisdom is infallible, whose advice never errs, and he would be our Guide. There is a little prayer in one of the Psalms which pleads: “Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk.” This prayer, if sincere, will always be answered. We may see no hand leading us. We may hear no voice saying, as we walk in the darkness, “This is the way, walk ye in it.” Yet if we seek divine guidance and accept it implicitly, we shall always have it. We have it in Browning:
“I go to prove my soul!
I see my way as birds their trackless way.
I shall arrive! What time, what circuit first,
I ask not: but unless God send his hail
Or blinding fireballs, sleet or stifling snow,
In some time, his good time, I shall arrive:
He guides me and the bird. In his good time!”
Not only do we have keeping and guidance in Christ, but everything we need on the way, and then eternal blessedness. We may commit our lives into his hands with absolute confidence. He will take us with all our faults and our sins and restore us. He will bring out all the possibilities of our lives. He will keep us from hurt in all the perils of the way. He will lead us in the right path amid all the confusion and tangle. He will bring us to his glory.
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