Daily Devotionals

Devotional: December 15th

" The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil." - Psalms 121:7.

This is an invitation to thee to give over the keeping of thyself entirely into the Lord’s hands. Let him be thy keeper and he will keep thee from all evil. That no harm ever befalls the Christian, cannot be said. But while he follows that which is good, no harm befalls him. While he suffers the Lord to guide him, he is preserved infallibly.

It is only by faith that we can appreciate the guidance of the Lord as being everything that an enlightened love could desire for us. When we have made ourselves over to the Lord and to his guidance, often the very things are suffered to come upon us which we would most certainly have characterized as evil. We are prepared for trials; but they come in a form that we should have thought to be impossible. We had formed some particular conception of the goodness of God; settled it in our minds that this goodness would prompt him to act in a certain way towards us; when lo, we find him acting in a quite contrary way; and it will go hard if the thought do not in continently arise, that God is without the goodness we had imputed to him, and that our faith has overshot the limits of the reality. Oh, what a dishonoring thought! As though we, imbecile and infatuated worms, could invent a God superior to the God that really exists. But God in due time, if we pursue the way of faith, vindicates himself to us. Our minds are disabused of their vain fancies. We get a loftier conception of the goodness of God. A foundation is laid for experiences of a far more blessed kind than those of which we were disappointed.

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