It is no security to a man that he has done great things or beheld bright visions; these may be the very cause of his downfall. If he learn to think that he has some great strength within him to do, some bright eye within him that can always see, his great doings, and his glorious success will be the very means of separating him from the light and the life of God. He will feel that he can go on without God in the world, and God may leave him to try how far he can go. What security, then, has a man who, after all this glory, is yet in such peril? He may trust that the Lord in whom he has believed, who has shown him such marvellous things, will not suffer his foot to be moved. "He who keepeth him does not slumber or sleep."

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