Walk in your path of integrity with steadfast steps, and show that you are invincibly strong in the strength which confidence in God alone can confer. Be you a man with living principles within never bow to the varying customs of worldly wisdom. He who trusts in craft, sails this way today, and that way the next, like a vessel tossed about by the fickle wind but he that trusteth in the Lord is like a vessel propelled by steam, she cuts through the waves, defies the wind, and makes one bright silvery straightforward track to her destined haven. Trusting God, you will not be guilty of self-contradiction. Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience. Trusting in God, you will not be compelled to mourn because you have used sinful means to grow rich. Let me commend to you a life of trust in God in temporal things. Acting in all prudence and uprightness, we are to rely simply and entirely upon the Lord at all times. We are not to be imprudent or rash that were to trust chance, and not the living God, who is a God of economy and order. We are not to be idle, that would show we did not trust in God, who worketh hitherto, but in the devil, who is the father of idleness. It is only as we learn to trust in God for the supply of all our daily need that we shall live above the world. Eveningįaith is as much the rule of temporal as of spiritual life we ought to have faith in God for our earthly affairs as well as for our heavenly business. Blessed 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." 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. 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? 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. 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. A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord. 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. The Psalmist felt his need of divine guidance. "Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory."