'It is not our part to guide

It is not our part to guide our life in this world

Way down in the heart of the great steamer, the engineer stands. He never sees how the vessel moves. He does not know where she is going. It is not his duty to know.

It is his duty only to answer every signal, to quicken or slow its motion, to reverse it — just as he is directed by the one whose part it is to navigate the vessel. He has nothing whatever to do with the vessel's course. He sees not an inch of the sea.

Just so, it is not our part to guide our life in this world , amid its tangled affairs. It is ours just to do our duty — our Master's bidding. Christ's hand is on the helm. He sees all the future. He pilots us.

Let us learn to thank God, that we cannot know the future, that we need not know it. Christ knows it — and it is better to go on in the dark with Him, letting Him lead — than to go alone in the light, and choose our own path.

"He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation." Psalm 107:7

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