cxxi.; "I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh
my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will
not slumber. Behold, He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor
sleep. The Lord is thy keeper; the Lord is thy shade upon thy right
hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The
Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: He shall preserve thy soul.
The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in, from this
time forth, and even for evermore."

Some one calls that the traveler's psalm. It is a beautiful psalm for
those of us who are pilgrims through this world; and one with which
we should be well acquainted.

God can do what He has done before. He kept Joseph in Egypt; Moses
before Pharaoh; Daniel in Babylon; and enabled Elijah to stand before
Ahab in that dark day. And I am so thankful that these I have
mentioned were men of like passions with ourselves. It was God who
made them so great. What man wants is to look to God. Real true faith
is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. When man has no
strength, if he leans on God he becomes powerful. The trouble is that
we have too much strength and confidence in ourselves.

Again in Hebrews vi. 17, 18: "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to
show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel,
confirmed it by an oath that by two immutable things, in which it was
impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who
have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which
hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and
which entereth into that within the vail; whither the Forerunner is
for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the
order of Melchisedec."

Now these are precious verses to those who are afraid of falling, who
fear that they will not hold out. It is God's work to hold. It is the
Shepherd's business to keep the sheep. Who ever heard of the sheep
going to bring back the shepherd? People have an idea that they have
to keep themselves and Christ too. It is a false idea. It is the work
of the Shepherd to look after them, and to take care of those who
trust Him. And He has promised to do it. I once heard that when a sea
captain was dying he said, "Glory to God; the anchor holds." He
trusted in Christ. His anchor had taken hold of the solid rock. An
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