The Guidance of the Holy Spirit as Compared to a Compass
Psalm 73:24
You shall guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.


A mariner who puts out to sea, losing sight of land, beholds nothing but a waste of waters around him. The night comes on, and clouds and darkness gather in upon him. But in his chart and compass he has an infallible guide. He regulates the sail as the wind requires, and holds to the rudder, never losing sight of the compass, and watchfully keeps the narrow way to which it confines him by night and by day. So the wise Christian looks up as one continually dependent on the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, the one source of all his spiritual life and motion. He is careful to watch the least breathing of the Spirit upon his soul that he may not quench it, but yield himself up to its full impression. And adding to this, his faith, all diligence and watchfulness, he is wafted onwards in safety, amidst the storms and wrecks around him in an evil world.

(H.G. Salter.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.

WEB: You will guide me with your counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.




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