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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

“You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.” Psalm 16:11. “For this God is our God for ever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.” Psalm 48:14. “Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.” Proverbs 16:3. “‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’” Jeremiah 29:11. “Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37:5 (KJV). If in our hearts we are willing to be guided in our daily lives, and if we express this desire to our divine Shepherd, we can claim the promise: “You have granted him the desire of his heart and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah. ” Psalm 21:2. When we are granted a clear vision of our duty and the way we have to go, we can say with David: “I have set the L ORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.” Psalm 16:8. There are many more such promises of divine guidance in the Scriptures. If we search for them and feed on them daily, they will be a mighty inspiration to us. God is Never taken by Surprise Another faith-strengthening promise is that God is never tak en by surprise. He knows the end from the beginning, and has made full provision for every emergency before it occurs. Therefore long before sin appeared, the solution to this problem was ready. Christ “was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake.” 1Peter 1:20. Was God caught out by Adam and Eve’s fall? Not at all—He did not need to stop and carefully devise a solution when sin made its entrance on earth, but in full foreknowledge He had al ready planned for it. The Son of God had offered Himself as the sacrifice for sin long before it actually raised its ugly head. “All inhabitants of the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written in the book of life belong