"Hold me up--and I shall be safe!" Psalm 119:117The first lesson we have to learn, is that without Divine help we cannot stand; and that with it we cannot fall. We must cultivate a spirit of lowly dependence and conscious weakness.We need a mightier strength than our own, which shall curb all this evil nature of ours, and restrain us from sin's deceits.When God's Spirit comes into a man's heart, He will deaden his desires after the world and forbidden ways. He will make us love and desire blessed and holier objects. He who has been fed on "the hidden manna" will not be likely to hanker after the leeks and onions that grew in the Nile mud in Egypt, however strong their smell and pungent their taste. He who has tasted the higher sweetnesses of God, will have his heart's desires after worldly delights strangely deadened and cooled. My heart, touched by the indwelling Spirit of God, will turn to Him--and I shall find little sweetness in the otherwise tempting delicacies that earth can offer.God desires to cleanse us from the filth of the swine trough, and the rags of our exile--and clothe us in fine linen, clean and white. If you will submit yourself into His hands, He will give you abilities to detect the serpents in the flowers, and new resolution to shake off the vipers into the fire. "Hold me up--and I shall be safe!" Psalm 119:117