Take that word keep and hold it close to your heart tonight and tomorrow.

It is one of the great and magnificent messages of the Gospel— He “is able to keep you from stumbling.” Put into the word you all the weakness, all the unworthiness, all the sinfulness which belongs to man since the Fall; yet He is able to keep you. He does not underrate the disadvantage of its being you when He bids His messengers say He is “able to keep you from stumbling.”

It would be impossible, utterly impossible, were it not undertaken by Infinite love. Look out, and up, then. Look up “from the depth”—the vast depth of your weakness, perhaps of your mysteriously inherited weakness.

Look out of your failure under some temptation, inward or outward, inherited so to speak from yourself, from your own unfaithfulness in the past. Look up, out of your ruined purposes—unto Himself.

Being what He is, Keeper of Israel, God of the promises, Lord of the Sacrifice, Prince of life, present Savior, indwelling Power, He is able to keep you, that your feet shall not totter. They shall stand “in a large room” (Psalm 31:8 KJV); they shall hold on straight, until at last they enter, step by step—for it is one step at a time even then—“through the gates into the city” (Revelation 22:14 KJV).

“He shall never give thy feet to tottering.” H. C. G. MOULE

We may step firmly down upon the temptation which Another has crushed for us, and we are conquerors in Him.

Behind the dim unknown standeth God within the shadows keeping watch above His own.

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven.—Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.

Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.