7. In times of trouble and distress, what precious promise may we take hold of? Hebrews 13:5, last part.
NOTE: ‘We are passing through an enemy’s land. Foes are upon every side to hinder our advancement. They hate God and all who follow after Him and bear His name. But those who are our enemies are the Lord’s enemies, and although they are strong and artful, yet the Captain of our salvation who leadeth us can vanquish them. As the sun disperses the clouds from its path, so will the Sun of Righteousness remove the obstacles to our progress. We may cheer our souls by looking at the things unseen that will cheer and animate us in our journey. We may indeed say, “Thy presence is our security, our treasure, our glory, our joy.” Do we pray that Christ will go where we go and dwell where we dwell? If we can live without Christ in this world, He will live without us in the better world. But if we cling to Him by living faith, saying with Jacob, “I will not let Thee go”; if we entreat, “Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me,” the promise is to us “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.”’ Christ Triumphant, page 90.
8. Who will be with us to protect and deliver us? Psalm 34:6-7.
NOTE: ‘“The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them.” Psalm 34:7. God commissions His angels to save His chosen ones from calamity, to guard them from “the pestilence that walketh in darkness” and “the destruction that wasteth at noonday.” Psalm 91:6. Again and again have angels talked with men as a man speaketh with a friend, and led them to places of security. Again and again have the encouraging words of angels renewed the drooping spirits of the faithful and, carrying their minds above the things of earth, caused them to behold by faith the white robes, the crowns, the palm branches of victory, which overcomers will receive when they surround the great white throne. It is the work of the angels to come close to the tried, the suffering, the tempted. They labour untiringly on behalf of those for whom Christ died.’ Acts of the Apostles, page 153.