Your prayer for safety tonight is both wise and needful, for we are all in danger and constantly need to cry to God to keep us. There is not one of us who can keep himself for a single hour. We need an infinite Friend to keep us in safety against all the machinations of our adversaries and against the perils of the way.
Remember that our safety lies not in our own carefulness, though carefulness is required, but in our Savior. The Scripture says, Now unto Him that is able to keep you from falling, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty. He is as wise as He is able, and as able as He is wise, to keep you from falling. It is a grand thing to feel that His throne might sooner fail than that one of His people should perish unkept, for His throne itself is established in righteousness.
And you have this further comfort, that He shall give His angels charge over you to keep you in all your ways. He who travels on the King's Highway is under the King's protection. Keep then to the appointed way, the way of principle and of humble obedience, for the way of consecrated service for God's glory is a safe way, and there the promise holds. This protection is not for a moment only, but it is perpetual as well as personal, for you will always need divine and angelic keeping.
We join our prayer with yours tonight. May the Lord set His watch about you as you go forth and as you return, may He guide your hands and your eyes upon the road, preserve you from all harm and sudden danger, and bring you to your journey's end in peace. And beyond this night, may He keep your soul even more than your body, and present you faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. We ask this in the precious name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who is our Keeper and our Shield. Amen.