“I will commit my way, O Lord, to thee,
Nor doubt thy love, though dark the way may be,
Nor murmur, for the sorrow is from
God, And there is comfort also in thy rod.
“I will not seek to know the future years,
Nor cloud today with dark tomorrow’s fears;
I will ask a light from heaven, to show
How, step by step, my pilgrimage should go.”
We like to ask advice of wise and trusted friends. All life’s paths are new to us. We do not know the road. It is always true of us that we “have not passed this way hitherto.” We need guidance – a hand to lead us. We like, as we enter an untried way, to talk about it with some one who has tried it already and can give us advice. This is one of the advantages which a young person finds in having an older friend. “Old men for counsel.” If inexperience turned oftener to experience for advice there would be fewer wrecks on life’s broad and storm swept seas.
Few promises mean more, when practically interpreted, than that one which tells us that if we acknowledge the Lord in all ways, he will direct our paths. We all need direction in our life paths. We are continually coming to points where we cannot decide what we ought to do, which way we ought to take. We turn to our friends for counsel. The little child puts its hand in the mother’s. The blind man seeks some one with good eyes to lead him. Inexperience looks to experience. But human guidance is inadequate. It is short sighted, and cannot know certainly what is best. It is ignorant, and may mislead unwittingly. Wrong advice, though meant for good, has wrecked many a life destiny. Even love may guide fatally.
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