GOD OUR GUIDE by Alexander Maclaren

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Apr 17, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 16.

GOD OUR GUIDE.

By Alexander Maclaren

God's people were not led by a road already made and used, and which they could have studied from beginning to end on a map before starting; but they were led day by day, and step by step, by a living Guide, who chose a route never before trodden. In the morning they did not know whether they were to go forward or back, or to stay where they were.

Our passage thru life is similar. It is not a chart we are promised, but a guide. We can not tell where next year or next month may be spent. We are not informed of any part of our future, and have no means of ascertaining the emergencies which may try us, the new ingredients which may suddenly be thrown into our life, and reveal in us what till now has lain hidden and dormant. We can not tell by what kind of path we shall be led onward to our end; and our security from day to day consists not at all in this, that we can penetrate the future, and can see no danger in it, but our security is that we shall always be guided by infallible and loving wisdom.—A. Maclaren, D.D.