This brief earthly life is even more unstable than the waters which Christ allowed Peter to walk upon. We walk, as it were, over a great abyss; and we often do not see the fact that we are so close to falling away at any moment—not just from physical life, but—from true life in God into the deep abyss of spiritual death.

Even more so, we often fail to see the constant activity of God’s ever-watchful and all-loving protection over our whole life, both physical and spiritual, and His readiness to come to our aid.

This...