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He will keep the feet of His saints.
1 Samuel 2:9

The Lord sees His poor scattered pilgrims traveling through a valley of tears, journeying through a waste howling wilderness, a path beset with baits, traps, and snares in every direction. How can they escape? Why, the Lord keeps their feet, carries them through every rough place, as a tender parent carries a little child; when about to fall, graciously lays the everlasting arms underneath them, and when tottering and stumbling, and their feet ready to slip, mercifully upholds them from falling altogether. Thus the Lord keeps the feet of His saints.

But do you think that He has not different ways for different feet? The God of creation has not made two flowers, nor two leaves upon a tree alike; and will He cause all His people to walk in precisely the same path? No; we have each our path, each our troubles, each our trials, each peculiar traps and snares laid for our feet.

And the wisdom of the all-wise and only-wise God is shown by His eyes being in every place, marking the footsteps of every pilgrim, suiting His remedies to meet their individual case and necessity, appearing for them when nobody else could do them any good; watching so tenderly over them, as though the eyes of His affection were bent on one individual; and carefully noting the goings of each, as though all the powers of the Godhead were concentrated on that one person to keep him from harm.

To the reader…

Sometimes you feel like a poor pilgrim on a path full of pits and snares, and you fear you will fall at the next step. Then hear what is written here: “He will keep the feet of His saints.” The Lord carries His own as a loving mother carries her little child. Where they stumble, He stretches out His arms beneath them and holds them fast. It is not your own steadiness that keeps you standing, but His preserving hand.

And do not think your way is too strange or too hard for Him. He has not made two leaves alike, and so each of His children has a way of his own, with its own obstacles and trials. Yet He watches your footsteps as closely as if His eye were fixed on you alone. He draws near to you precisely when no one else can do anything for you. Trust Him, then, for the steepest paths that are still to come as well.

With warm regards,
The compilers of jcphilpot.nl