JOHN WAS a boy who had been promised a watch for his birthday if he learned to tell the time. He was puzzled when one day he read in his Bible the verse:
“I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower,
And will watch to see
what He will say unto me.”
His mind being full of the watch he had hoped to get, he thought it would not be a good thing for one to stand on it. For a long time he pondered those words, “I will stand upon my watch,” and because he could not grasp their meaning, he asked his father the next morning at breakfast.
His father explained to him that the prophet of God was troubled because of the evil which Satan led people into. The watchman’s duty was to stand at his post on the wall or high tower and watch for danger, and to warn the people when he saw enemies or trouble approaching, John’s father told him God wanted him to be ever on the watch so that he might not be led into doing or saying things displeasing to God. The Lord Jesus told His disciples: “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation.” Matthew 26:4141Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. (Matthew 26:41).
Dear young friends, all who confess Jesus as Lord can say with David, His servant, “The Lord is my strength in Whom I will trust, my high tower.” Are you standing upon your watch against the many temptations that are coming your way, and have you learned that you can-not resist the enemy on your own strength? Go up to your bedroom, your high tower, and down upon your knees, listen to the Lord Jesus, and “watch to see what He will say unto (thee).”
I will keep thee! Simply trust Me
All the way!
Through the desert I will guide thee
Day by day.
" Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat.... Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it " (Matt. 7:13:14).
ML-09/28/1969