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God

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With Us

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and weary journey, and would bring him back in His own time to this very land, perhaps even to his father's house. Desolate as this place seemed, and forsaken of all his long

none the

living creatures,

Lord

the

And

spoke.

place

this

less

and



God was I knew

"Surely

here too. it

So Jacob

not".

unconsciously he had uttered a great, eternal

For God

truth.

He

in

is

has created

in

is is

every place; this whole universe which

filled

As

with His presence.

the Psalmist

has said Whither

shall

Or whither If

I

I

go from Thy

shall

I

flee

spirit?

from Thy presence?

ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; in the netherworld, behold,

If I

make my bed

If

take the wings of the morning,

I

And

Thou

art there.

dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;

Even there would Thy hand lead me, And Thy right hand would hold me.

And And Even

if

I

say; 'Surely the darkness shall envelop me,

the light about the darkness

is

me

shall

he night'

not too dark for Thee,

But the night shineth as the day

The darkness

is

even as the

light.

(Psalm

CXXXIX,

7-12.)

God is in every place and at all times. He is with all His children to care for and guide and protect them, and lead them ever in His path, as long as they will but hearken to His gentle word and follow His loving call. In the words of the Psalmist is my shepherd I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul He guideth me in straight paths for His name's

The Lord



Yea, though I

will fear

For thou

I

no

sake.

walk through the valley of the shadow of death, evil,

art with

Thv rod and Thv

me



staff,

thev comfort me. \n