Observe also what I may term the delicacy of the promise and the intimacy of the relationship. God says, “I will guide thee with Mine eye.” When David was living in a state of impenitence, the strong hand of God was upon him day and night. But now a look is enough. No force is needed. The heart is tender, the ear is open, the eye is fixed on the Lord Jesus, and the least intimation of His will is sufficient. The passage seems to describe the eye of the Lord watching over His children, and the eyes of His children fixed on the Lord. When the Lord Jesus looked on Peter, Peter must have been looking on Him, and one look melted his heart. And so when the Lord is guiding us, there is no need of strong or violent discipline, of the wind, the storm, or the earthquake, for the still small voice is enough. What is needed is that we should be living looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, seeking to know His will, drinking in His word, watching the guidance of His providence, applying the principles of Scripture to common life, and so not waiting till conviction is forced upon us, but, with a tender heart and a ready mind, seeking hour by hour to do His will. It is in such an attitude of mind that we can realize the sacred promise, “I will guide thee with Mine eye.” Such, then, was the intercourse of this forgiven man with God. How close, how intimate, how sacred, how blessed, the communion! And how complete must have been the forgiveness that prepared the way for it. It seems almost impossible to believe that this was the same man on whom God’s hand had been heavy day and night, the same whose bones had waxed old through his roaring all the day long, now forgiven, now brought into happy intercourse with God. Does not the passage teach a wonderful lesson to every soul that has been mercifully forgiven in Christ Jesus? When we think of the precious blood of Christ, and how the Lord laid on Him the iniquity of us all, can we suppose for a moment that the forgiveness bestowed on us is less complete, or the restoration less perfect, than that of David? Since, then, in his case, the insuperable barrier of his guilt was so completely broken down that he was admitted to this sacred and intimate fellowship, why should any one of us remain at a distance? Why should not we, even we, go before the same Father to find in Him our hiding-place, and receive from Him the same blessed assurance, “I will guide thee with Mine eye”? May He accompany us through life with that loving guidance and watch over every step we take till, by His great grace, we are safe from danger. THE SAVIOUR SEEKING THE SINNER “What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?”—ST. LUKE xv. 4.