In days of increasing gloom and perplexity like the present, the soul is more sent to the sure hiding place of safety—to the sunny Pisgah heights (Deut. 34:1) of hope and observation. There it can meditate on the strength of those foundations which God has put under our feet and know the intimacy of that communion into which He has even now introduced our hearts and the brightness of those prospects which He has set before our eyes.
And is He our object? The heart well knows the power of that which is its object. Do we make the Lord Jesus such? Do we find anything of that sickness of hope of which we read in Proverbs 13:12? Are we able to say, “When He giveth quietness, who then can make trouble?” (Job 34:29).