As a young convert asks: "How can I keep from stumbling?”
Dear young soul, I answer: "You cannot keep from stumbling at all; but He 'is able to keep you from falling.' The least confidence in yourself leads to an inevitable fall.”
Again we are met with the very promise we need to escape this snare: "For the Lord shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.”
You question again, "How shall I be kept?”
Jesus Himself has answered: "If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world." "Walk in the light," "looking unto Jesus," and so shall you be "kept by the power of God through faith.”
We tell a little child to look where it steps and pick its way; but the children of God are to do just the opposite: they are to look away to Jesus. "Let thine eyes look"― not down, but "right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee." Why? Because it is on Him, the Light of the world, that the gaze is to be fixed.