What  confidence the writer of this Psalm had in his God! He had made many blunders and mistakes, but now henceforth he will give up trusting his own wisdom, and take God for his guide alone. It is so easy to fall into error when we trust our own shortsighted Judgments. It is very assuring when we walk with God, not before Him; when we mark the course He leads, and not mark one out for ourselves. We may with confidence go forward when He leads the way without the slightest fear or hesitancy in any path He calls us to tread. 

"But," as an old writer says, "Abraham knew with whom he went," if he did not know where. So every child of God is led aright in his heavenward journey. Now we learn:— I. There must be a worldly separation. "He went out." From home, kindred; the land of his nativity, his idol gods, all must be left behind. So there must be a severance with every one who sets out for the heavenly inheritance—a clear and marked distinction between the worldling's life and the Christian's; every act should be stamped with decision and separation from the world in matters pertaining to