Moses said unto the Lord: “Show me now Thy way that I may know Thee,” and He answered,
I was going on a short trip with my little daughter. We had no automobile as yet to take the place of horse and buggy, so she asked me if she could drive. I said she could. So she took the reins with great pleasure, and proud of her accomplishment as a coachman. But after a time we were to pass a team in a rather dangeus place with high embankments on each side of the road. She handed me the reins and said,
“I believe you had better drive now.”
We ourselves are all like children, we think we can conduct ourselves aright, and act very independent on this road of life, but when we meet obstacles on our way that we wish to overcome, we realize that the way is narrow, with a precipice on either side of it, and we feel helpless to remove danger from our path.
At such times we know that God alone is able to hold the reins and guide us aright.
Ah! my dear friends, if we often find ourselves in a tight place, not knowing which to turn, it is because we don’t let God take hold of the reins all the time.
ML 05/11/1941