We stand upon slippery places!'

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"The Lord keep you." Numbers 6:24

How we need the Lord to keep us!

We stand upon slippery places!

Snares and traps are laid for us in every direction.

Every employment, every profession in life, from the
highest to the lowest—has its special temptations.
Snares are spread for the feet of the most illiterate
as well as the most highly cultivated minds. Nor is
there anyone, whatever his position in life may be, who
has not a snare laid for him—and such a snare as will
surely prove his downfall if God does not keep him.

Well, then, may it be the desire of our soul,
"The Lord keep me" . . .
keep me in His providence, keep me by His grace;
keep me by planting His fear deep in my soul, and
maintaining that fear alive and effectual in my heart;
keep me waking, keep me sleeping;
keep me by night, keep me by day;
keep me at home, keep me abroad;
keep me with my family, keep me with my friends;
keep me in the world, and keep me in the church.

May the Lord keep me, according to His promise,
every moment—keep me by His Spirit and grace
with all the tenderness implied in His words,
"O keep me as the apple of Your eye!"

My friends, you can know . . .
little of your own heart,
little of Satan's devices,
little of the snares spread for your feet,
unless you feel how deeply you need this
blessing—"The Lord keep you."

And He will, for we read of the righteous, that they
are kept "by the power of God through faith unto
salvation;" and that "He will keep the feet of His saints."

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