9. What precious promise is ours, no matter what problems life may bring to us? Isaiah 43:1-2.
NOTE: ‘When trouble comes upon us, how often we are like Peter! We look upon the waves, instead of keeping our eyes fixed upon the Saviour. Our footsteps slide, and the proud waters go over our souls. Jesus did not bid Peter come to Him that he should perish; He does not call us to follow Him, and then forsake us. “Fear not,” He says; “for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art Mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.” Isaiah 43:1-3.’ Desire of Ages, page 382.
10. What prayer of confidence and faith should be ours so long as we live in this world of sin? Jude 1:24-25. Compare Psalm 118:6.
NOTE: ‘You and I can no more hold ourselves up and in the right way than can the sun or the earth. And as certainly as the worlds are dependent upon His word, so certainly is the Christian to depend upon His word. And when this is so, the Christian is kept in the way of the Lord as certainly and as easily as is any planet in the universe. It is written that He “is able to keep you from falling.” And He says, “I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness.” [Isaiah 41:10.] “Yea, he shall be holden up; for God is able to make him stand.” [Romans 14:4.] O struggling, failing Christian, is not that word which holds up great worlds able also to hold up you? Trust that word. Depend implicitly upon it. Rest wholly upon it: and then you will find rest in it. Trust the Lord to hold you up, just as you trust Him to hold up the sun. His word holds up the sun, and His word is over and over to you, “Fear thou not; for I am with thee.” [Isaiah 41:10.] “I will uphold thee.” I will keep thee, thou art mine. “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” I will never leave thee till I have done that thing which I have spoken to thee of.’ A. T. Jones: Review & Herald, October 13, 1896.