Psalm 32:8-9 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: I will guide you with my eye. Now, if we start in the journey of life without a guide, we shall be sure to go astray and wander from the right path. We shall find many guides offering their services, but who will only lead us on to ruin. We are better without them. The only safe guide, on whom we may always rely with confidence, is Jesus our Saviour. It is He who says so tenderly in our text, "I will guide thee with Mine eye." What wonderful power there is in the eye. How much it can say. Jesus has three things that He makes use of in guiding His people — I. HE HAS A WONDERFUL EYE. The eye is the emblem of knowledge, and the Bible tells us that "the eye of the Lord is in every place, beholding," etc. This wonderful eye that takes all things in shows the perfect knowledge of Jesus. It is important for a guide to have a clear and proper knowledge of everything the persons he is guiding will need in their journey. Suppose you start on a journey. At night it becomes very cold; but your guide has provided no warm clothing, and made no preparations for a fire, then how much suffering there will be! Or suppose there is a river to be crossed, and you have no means of crossing it, what trouble that will cause! But if we take Jesus for our Guide in the journey of life which is before us, we need fear none of these things. "He seeth the end from the beginning." He knows everything that we can need through the whole course of our journey; His wonderful eye takes in at a glance the guidance which His people need; and He leads them in the right way. II. JESUS HAS A WONDERFUL HAND. The hand represents power. He makes use of His eye and His hand, His knowledge and His power, to guide and help His people. III. HE HAS A WONDERFUL BOOK. In foreign travel a guide-book is indispensable. It tells us all the things we want to know on our journey. So is the Bible to us poor lost sinners; and chief of all, because it guides us to Jesus. (R. Newton, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. |
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