God must be, and is, the Originator of all that is good. If one is to be led rightly, this must be by God sending out His light and His truth to lead in His own wise way. The truth does not leave me to decide for myself what is the best way to be led. If I receive the truth of God, it will lead me unerringly to God’s holy hill and to God’s tabernacle. His hill is high above the common level, as expressed in Ephesians 1:3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.”

More than this, the believer is brought by the truth of God to God’s holy tabernacle, the place where God dwells in the person of His beloved Son. Where is this tabernacle today? It is in the house of God, the Church of the Living God, the pillar and ground of the truth (1 Tim. 3:15). This is not a material house but a spiritual house, in which we might offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ (1 Pet. 2:5).

Well might we respond at the altar of God—the altar speaking of Christ Himself—with gladness of joy, praising Him whom we know as “God, my God.” Who is this God? It is God revealed in His blessed Son, the Lord Jesus, who is worthy of unceasing praise and worship.