[Songs in the Night - September 30]
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light. Exodus 13:21
WHAT was thus done every day by the Lord's direction
in natural Israel surely takes place with equal
regularity in spiritual Israel.
All who will be found
faithful, all Israelites indeed, as they go forth every
morning to the journey of life, to the battle of life, to
the trials and testings by the way, must surely learn
to look unto the Lord as the Captain of their Salvation,
as the one through whom alone Satan and his hosts
can be defeated, through whom alone we can have the
victory....Which spiritual Israelite can afford to
retire at the close of the day without retrospectively
calling to mind the goodness of the Lord and desiring
his continued favor and protection in the shades of
night? Z'07-236 R4039:1 (Hymn 110)