THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE MADE PLAIN

THE WAY OF THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL BE MADE PLAIN

We honour the Lord when we are inflexible as to what is right. The enemy ever seeks to make us give in a little; and once you do this, the Lord no longer supports you. When one is right, he must not look to the right hand nor to the left; he must keep in a straight line. The way of the righteous shall be made plain. Joab worked on David with regard to Absalom, and led him wrong. It is easy to go wrong, but you cannot go right but in the power of God.

Jacob failed at Shechem in making concession. God blessed Abraham because he was so strict and particular about a wife for his son. The throne is established by righteousness.... The important point of a trial of this kind is, that it is, in a way, a test of you. If you cannot stand firm here, how can you stand firm in a matter of personal concern to the Lord? I know that it is the daily and protracted nature of this trial which makes it so peculiarly severe; but it is godly exercise, and exercise is always for profit. Let us not be weary in well doing; for in due season we shall reap if we faint not. The Lord give us each to take all His ways more to heart, and to be in greater readiness to do His pleasure at every juncture.