5. Under trial it is not easy to
behave ourselves aright; a candle is not easily kept alight when many envious
mouths are puffing at it. In evil times prayer is particularly needful, and the
wise resort to it at once. If we would be preserved, we must cry to the
Preserver, and enlist divine support upon our side. Hold up my goings. A
careful driver holds up his horse when going downhill. We have all sorts of
paces, both fast and slow, and the road is never long of one sort, but with God
to hold up our goings, nothing in the pace or in the road can cast down. Inthy paths. Forsaking Satan’s paths, he prayed to be upheld in God’s paths.
We cannot keep from evil without keeping to good. That my footstepsslip not. The road is good, but our feet are evil, and therefore slip, even
on the King’s highway. Who wonders if carnal people slide and fall in the ways
of their own choosing? One may trip over an ordinance as well as a temptation.
Jesus Christ himself is a stumbling-block to some, and the doctrines of grace have
been the occasion of offense to many. Grace alone can hold up our goings in the
paths of truth.
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