February 19

Guidance

“I will guide thee with mine eye.”
— Ps. 32:8

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.”