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Make straight paths for your feet.
(J. C. Philpot, "New
Years' Addresses")
"Make straight paths for your feet." Hebrews
12:13
Surrounded as we are with a crooked generation,
professing and profane, whose ways we are but too
apt to learn; beset on every hand by temptations . . .
to turn aside into some crooked path,
to feed our pride,
to indulge our lusts,
to gratify our covetousness;
blinded and seduced sometimes by the god of this world;
hardened at other times by the deceitfulness of sin; here
misled by the example, and there bewitched by the flattery
of some friend or companion; at one time confused and
bewildered in our judgment of right and wrong; at another
time entangled, half resisting, half complying, in some
snare of the wicked one; what a struggle have some of us
had to make straight paths for our feet; and
what pain
and grief that we should ever have made crooked ones.
"But as for me, my feet had almost slipped;
I had nearly lost my foothold." Psalm 73:2
When I said, "My foot is slipping," Your love,
O Lord, supported me. Psalm 94:18
"He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the
mud and mire; He set my feet on a rock and
gave me a firm place to stand." Psalm 40:2
"Hold me up, and I shall be safe!" Psalm 119:117
"I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead
you along straight paths." Proverbs 4:11
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