IT IS SAFE TO TRUST IN GOD.
THE Bible is full of lessons, making it as clear as language can express it, that God wants his children to know that they can depend upon him under all circumstances. He has declared, and tried to make plain in hundreds of different ways, that he is an ever present help in every time of need, and yet he finds it hard to find people who will take him at his word, and trust him as he would be trusted. There are so many who lose all their faith and courage whenever they hear a lion roar, and become so paralyzed with fear that they forget to count on the promised help of God, and undertake to make a way of escape for themselves, when, if they would but know it, they are at that very moment in the best place in the world for them. If not, what does the ninety-first psalm mean? Was it put in the Bible simply to fill up? Surely in no way is God more dishonored by his children to-day than in their failure to believe and appropriate his promises. Imagine a millionaire's son going to a station-house to ask for shelter because he sees a storm coming, when he has his pocket full of his father's checks. "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty." Who wants any safer place than that?—Selected.