How truly up-to-date are these words of old! How they fit the most modern of men in

his latest circumstance!

A--This is indeed a help; it gives one fresh courage to see one's condition anticipated

and provided for.

B--We have had two prayers: "Lead me in Thy truth", and "Lead me in a plain path".

Let us add a third to complete the story:--

If we need a plain path because of our enemies, we need also this Rock, when the

heart is overwhelmed:--

We can safely add: "and that Rock was Christ."

The way of the Lord is right, however, roundabout, and it is not only in truth, but it

leads to Christ, and to a Christ higher than the highest, a Rock in the sea, a Rock in a

weary land. If, as we saw, the leading of the Lord is to do us good at the latter end, here

we see that the source of all that good is Christ.

A--While I suppose the words we have before us: "Lead me to the Rock that is higher

than I", practically sum up the Lord's leading, there must be other aspects that would be

profitable for us to consider.

B--Yes, there are, and I think we might look at some of the agencies that are used in the

leading of the Lord's people. Take Psa. 43: 3, where we read: "O send out Thy light

and Thy truth: let them lead me." Darkness and deceit come from Satan, and the

blessedness of the Lord's leading can be appreciated when one contrasts it with the horror

of being led astray by Satan sending out his darkness and lies. The Lord's leading,

moreover, always has one goal: "Let them bring me unto Thy holy hill, and to Thy

tabernacles." Satan's objective is not holiness, but the reverse.

A--You will not understand me in what I am going to say, I trust, but we have had

leading in truth, and now we have leading by truth, yet I seem to feel a desire for

something more intimate, something, may I say it? more human.