We don’t always have to keep our eyes on our footsteps lest we slip, inadvertently, on a temptation. God is at our side. He is, as another psalmist put it, “behind and before” (see 139:5). And when it comes down to it, do we need anything more than our Lord’s prayer for us: “Holy Father, guard them. . . . I’m not asking that you take them out of the world / But that you guard them from the Evil One” (Jn 17:11, 15)? With a prayer like that offered to the Father on our behalf, are we not secure?
