They whom Christ guides want none other for leader, pattern, counselor, companion, reward. Nor will the pillar which guides us cease to blaze as did the guide of the desert march, when Jordon has been crossed. It will still move before us on paths of continuous and ever-increasing approach to infinite perfection. That we do not know what hes before us is a commonplace. The same long tracks of monotonous continuance in the same place and doing the same duties, befall us that befell these men.
Years pass, and the pillar spreads itself out, a defense above the unmoving sanctuary.
And so our lives are shuttle-cocked between uniform sameness which may become mechanical monotony, and agitation by change which may make us lose our hold of fixed principles and calm faith, unless we recognize that the continuance and the change are alike the will of the guiding God whose will is signified by the stationary or moving pillar. That leads me to the last thing that I would note -viz., the docile following of the Guide . In the context the writer does not seem to be able to get away from the thought that whatever the pillar did, that moment prompt obedience follows. He says it over and over and over again. In the night, after they had had their tents pitched for a long period, somewhere or other, in the night, when only the watchers' eyes were open, the pillar lifts, and in an instant the alarm is given, and all the camp is in a bustle.