“I will guide you with my eye.” Psalm 32:8Many have come to adore the priceless boon of the divine guidance. When the time comes to move, He leads the way! If the time has come for striking camp and moving on, He always finds some perfectly simple and perfectly natural means of indicating His will.
He may not always give the Sign of the Fleece as He did to Gideon, or the Sign of the Flowers as He did to Aaron when He made the dry rod blossom; or the Sign of the Food as He did to Peter in his approach to the house of Cornelius; but by some sign, suited to the seeker and his special circumstances, God will find a means of directing those who earnestly desire His guidance. Some pillar of cloud will precede them in the daytime; some pillar of fire will blaze on their horizon in the night. To those who are willing to follow the gleam, there will always come a kindly light to lead.
‘I will guide you!’ He says. He even tells me how. ‘I will guide thee with mine eye!’
I have seen a noble dog sit at his master's feet, intently gazing into his master's eyes, for the faintest intimation of his will. The words obviously mean that I am to live very near to Him—in perfect accord with Him—my eyes riveted upon His.
And to those who enter into that rapt and sacred intimacy—such an intimacy as the disciples tasted in the Upper Room—the path that it is their wisdom and their happiness to tread will always be made unmistakably clear. ‘Arise, let us go hence!’
F W Boreham, Cliffs of Opal, pp 157-58.
Image: “I have seen a noble dog sit at his master's feet, intently gazing into his master's eyes, for the faintest intimation of his will.”