[Songs in the Night - July 20]
Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day. Acts 26:22
IN REFERRING to the preservation of his life, the
apostle does not give credit to Lysias, the commander
of the garrison at Jerusalem, but declares that he obtained
help of God, by whom he had been sustained
to the time of his speaking....There is a good lesson
in this for all the Lord's people.
How apt many are
to give credit to "luck" or "chance" or human
instrumentality,
overlooking the fact that the Lord's saints
are the special objects of his care, and that the angel
of the Lord encampeth round about them and delivereth
them. Z'03-158 R3197:3 (Hymn 61)