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It is the work of the Holy Spirit to guide the people of God
through the uncertainties and dangers and duties of this life to
their home in Heaven. When He led the children of Israel out of
Egypt, by the hand of Moses, He guided them through the waste,
mountainous wilderness, in a pillar of cloud by day and of fire
by night, thus assuring their comfort and safety. And this was
but a type of His perpetual spiritual guidance of His people.
"But how may I certainly know what God wants of me?" is sure to
become the earnest and, oftentimes, the agonising cry of every
humble and devoutly zealous young Christian. "How may I know the
guidance of the Holy Spirit?" is asked again and again.
1. It is well for us to get it fixed in our minds that we need to
be guided always by Him. A ship was wrecked on a rocky coast far
out of the course that the captain thought he was taking. On
examination, it was found that the compass had been slightly
deflected by a bit of metal that had lodged in the box.
But the voyage of life on which we each one sail is beset by as
many dangers as the ship at sea, and how shall we surely steer
our course to our heavenly harbour without Divine guidance? There
is a wellnigh infinite number of influences to deflect us from
the safe and certain course. We start out in the morning, and we
know not what person we may meet, what paragraph we may read,
what word may be spoken, what letter we may receive, what subtle
temptation may assail or allure us, what immediate decisions we
may have to make during the day, that may turn us almost
imperceptibly, but none the less surely, from the right way.
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