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ture. “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go; I will guide thee with mine eye.” In­ structions are very important. It’s too bad that so often we fail to heed these definite directions. God’s guid­ ance for our lives, unlike the advice people give us, is never complicated. God has promised to give us all the instructions we need for life through His Word. The Bible is your Book of instructions for living. It also serves in teaching us. We need this, too. God’s Holy Spirit dwells within the heart of every born-again believer. In this way there’s no danger of get­ ting on the wrong track. God has said, “I will guide thee with mine eye.” Back home in Britain, when we have a Sunday school picnic, we take several hundred youngsters to the beach. Some mother may admon­ ish a teacher, “Now, be sure to keep your eye on my daughter.” Why, one would need a thousand pairs of eyes to do what all the mothers request. To keep an eye on them doesn’t mean to stand over the child, making him absolutely miserable, but it is to have the general oversight, making sure that no harm comes to him. Omni­ presence, however, is no problem for the Lord, for this is one of His di­ vine attributes. The past is all your sins and trans­ gressions forgiven. The present is the knowledge that God is your hid­ ing place and that He will be with you in every kind of trouble, so that you can come out singing His praises. The future, though it’s unknown to you, is clear to Him, for with God there are no tomorrows; He is al­ ready there. The Psalmist finishes by saying, “Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.” Yes, this then is the secret of the really joyful and contented life. God help you so to love and live for Him that you may bring to Him the highest glory and the greatest praise, for His name’s sake!

the Psalmist comes to acknowledge his sins and iniquities. The first im­ portant stage for a really happy life is in knowing, believing, and being certainly assured that all of your sins, no matter how great, have been completely forgiven by God. Would this be your positive testimony? Now, there are many wonderful Christians who know that their sins are forgiven and who are rejoicing in this fact. Yet they are not com­ pletely happy because of some pres­ ent situation. It may be family prob­ lems, financial difficulties, sickness, or even death of a loved one. There are so many burdens to bear. Just the daily affairs of life seem often over­ whelming. The Psalmist found that the time to seek God and find Him is right now! Look at the promises concerning “the floods of great wa­ ters” which “shall not come nigh unto him.” In prayer we find our refuge. We were never promised that the Christian life would be a bed of roses. Very often a believer may have a rougher time than the one who knows not the Saviour. Those who live around us who don’t have time for the Lord don’t seem to need the doctors. We don’t see the undertaker at their homes. They always seem to have plenty of money for every luxury, to say nothing of their needs. (This is what the 73rd Psalm is all about.) The truth is that although the Christian seemingly has a hard time materially on the outside, in­ wardly he has this wonderful assur­ ance that no matter how great the storm, the floods will never over­ whelm him. He can go through the fire and still not be burned. Do you have such a hiding place? There is none, except Jesus Christ, if you are a sinner fleeing from God. But once your sins aré forgiven, you don’t fly from Him but rather to Him. “Rock of Ages, cleft for me; let me hide my­ self in Thee.” In addition to the past and the present, there is something very def­ inite in a lovely promise for the fu­

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