n, the slaves of
our besetting sins. No; He has come to deliver us, and to give us
victory over our evil tempers, our passions, and our lusts. Are you a
professed Christian but one who is a slave to some besetting sin? If
you want to get victory over that temper or that lust, go on to know
Christ more intimately. He brings deliverance for the past, the
present, and the future. "Who delivered; who doth deliver; who will
yet deliver." (2 Cor. i. 10.)

How often, like the children of Israel when they came to the Red Sea,
have we become discouraged because everything looked dark before us,
behind us, and around us, and we knew not which way to turn. Like
Peter we have said, "To whom shall we go?" But God has appeared for
our deliverance. He has brought us through the Red Sea right out into
the wilderness, and opened up the way into the Promised Land. But
Christ is not only our Deliverer; He is our Redeemer. That is
something more than being our Saviour. He has brought us back. "Ye
have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without
money." (Isaiah lii. 3.) "We were not redeemed with corruptible
things, as silver and gold." (1 Peter i. 18.) If gold could have
redeemed us, could He not have created ten thousand worlds full of
gold?

When God had redeemed the children of Israel from the bondage of
Egypt, and brought them through the Red Sea, they struck out for the
wilderness; and then God became to them their Way. I am so thankful
the Lord has not left us in darkness as to the right way. There is no
living man who has been groping in the darkness but may know the way.
"I am the Way," says Christ. If we follow Christ we shall be in the
right way, and have the right doctrine. Who could lead the children
of Israel through the wilderness like the Almighty God Himself? He
knew the pitfalls and dangers of the way, and guided the people
through all their wilderness journey right into the promised land. It
is true that if it had not been for their accursed unbelief they
might have crossed into the land at Kadesh Barnea, and taken
possession of it, but they desired something besides God's word; so
they were turned back, and had to wander in the desert for forty
years. I believe there are thousands of God's children wandering in
the wilderness still. The Lord has delivered them from the hand of
the Egyptian, and would at once take them through the wilderness
right into the Promised Land, if they were only willing to fo