Key Verse: "And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord
thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee,
and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou
wouldest keep his commandments, or no."
- Deuteronomy 8:2 KJV
When you look back upon the way the Lord has led you
these many years in the wilderness, can you not see how circumstance after
circumstance, and event after event arose, to prove what was in you; whether
godly fear, whether simplicity and sincerity, whether a desire to fear God,
whether a dread to offend him, whether the life and power of vital
godliness, or whether little else than an empty profession without the
life-giving power of God in the soul?
What a mercy for you to be able to look back and see how
the Lord appeared for you, when without him you must have sunk; when you can
feel, to your soul's comfort, that the Lord did uphold you in the trying
hour, did appear for you in distressing circumstances, did make bare his
right arm when you had no strength of your own, did guide you when you had
lost all clue, did bring you safe through all when, without his help, you
must have been utterly lost. What a mercy it is to be able, by the actings
of living faith (and sure I am, there must be faith in exercise), to look
back upon the way, and believe that indeed the grace of God was in your
heart, that the Lord proved it, and showed it to be genuine by every
circumstance that has taken place.
Are you Saved?
