lead them in paths that they have not known... These things will I do and not forsake them.” (Isaiah 42:16) Surely they were as blind men, but He brought them through the rock-strewn channels, filled with perils. He did not forsake them. At three in the morning they came to a bad rapid. The men waded about in vain, trying to find a channel. They made a small fire, made maté (herb tea) and burned rice. But before the rice was cooked, the men lay sprawled on the beach - asleep from sheer exhaustion. Harold slipped to the riverside to wash one of the few enamel plates which all the men used in turn. Just as he stooped to give it a rinse, an arrow flashed over him and embedded itself in a stump. Had he not stooped just then, it would have been the end. Another close in its wake narrowly missed him. Faint bird whistles echoed back and forth through the jungle, the savages signaling to one another. Occasionally forms flitted through a forest clearing. Once Satan, angered by his inability to harm Job, appeared before the Lord to trump up some accusations against him. He said, “Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not Thou made an hedge about him? Who wouldn’t serve a God who would hedge him in from attack!” Now again it was as though God had put an unseen hedge about His own - the arrows went over, around, and fell short, but, however narrow the miss, they always missed.
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