Isaiah 58:11

“The Lord shall guide you.” Not an angel, but Jehovah shall guide you. He said He would not go through the wilderness before His people, an angel should go before them to lead them in the way; but Moses said, “If your presence does not go with me, do not carry us up from here.” Christian, God has not left you in your earthly pilgrimage to an angel’s guidance: He Himself leads the way.

You may not see the cloudy, fiery pillar, but Jehovah will never forsake you. Notice the word shall—“The Lord shall guide you.” How certain this makes it! How sure it is that God will not forsake us! His precious “shalls” and “wills” are better than men’s oaths. “I will never leave you, nor forsake you.” Then observe the adverb continually.

We are not merely to be guided sometimes, but we are to have a perpetual monitor. We are not occasionally to be left to our own understanding, and so to wander, but we are continually to hear the guiding voice of the Great Shepherd. If we follow close at His heels, we shall not err, but be led by a right way to a city to dwell in.

If you have to change your position in life; if you have to emigrate to distant shores; if it should happen that you are cast into poverty, or uplifted suddenly into a more responsible position than the one you now occupy; if you are thrown among strangers, or cast among foes, yet do not tremble, for “the Lord shall guide you continually.”

There are no dilemmas from which you shall not be delivered if you live near to God, and your heart is kept warm with holy love. He who walks in the company of God does not go astray. Like Enoch, walk with God, and you cannot lose your way. You have infallible wisdom to direct you, immutable love to comfort you, and eternal power to defend you.

“Jehovah”—mark the word—“Jehovah shall guide you continually.”