It is well that you seek a covering for your small venture, for men must have a covering in all things. Yet consider the contrast set before us in Holy Writ: man's covering, which is narrow and worthless, and God's covering, which is broad and perfect. You have pleaded the precious Blood of Jesus Christ as the covering for tourists, the bus, the guide, the driver, the way, the weather, the very food and water. This is no vain request, for the Blood of Jesus Christ is the only covering that completely hides from the eye of Divine Justice. God sees no sin and permits no ultimate harm to those hidden beneath Jesus Christ. The covering is as broad as the sin, as broad as the need.
But let your soul take care that in seeking a covering for travel arrangements, you do not neglect the covering that is for your own naked soul. Many make a covering of their good works, which are as a pair of slippers, useful in their place but not a garment for the whole man. The logical covering of orthodoxy is but a headpiece, leaving the heart exposed. Plead the Blood for your tourists, yes, but be most urgent that you yourself are wrapped in that matchless mantle. The covering that avails for eternity must be the righteousness of Christ imputed; it must be the sovereign, gracious hiding of our sin by God Himself.
It is right to lay every detail before the Throne of Grace, for Divine interpositions often come in the way of deliverance from common floods of trouble. The unexpected help, the favorable circumstance, the keeping from calamity, these are marks of His hand, though not miracles, full of wonder for all that. He knows how to help the struggling trader and to bring the righteous up from deep distress. Believe in the unexpected. Yet know this, that the Divine Presence is the one hope of the people of God, whether on the road or in the home. If the Lord go not with the excursion, the guide and the driver and the fair weather are poor comforts.
Therefore, while you ask that the tourists may be only glad and satisfied, be not astonished if their greatest satisfaction might come through a sudden shower that sends them to their knees, or a delay that opens a door for a gracious word. He creates that He may display His own perfections. Entrust all to Him who is able to keep you from falling, and who alone can present you faultless before His presence with exceeding joy. To have our sins forgiven and to be hidden beneath the covering of the Most High, that is the grand safety, the bliss deeper than any earthly travel can provide. Go forward, then, in your business, but let your spirit say, “He delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling,” and this shall be your surest joy, whether the tour proceeds smoothly or is interrupted by a trial that proves His faithfulness.