Scripture
> Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
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> — Psalm 25:5 (ESV)
Devotional
When the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the Lord, he asks to be still led onward like a little child upheld by its parent’s helping hand, and he craves to be further instructed in the alphabet of truth. Experimental teaching is the burden of this prayer. David knew much, but he felt his ignorance, and desired to be still in the Lord’s school: four times over in two verses he applies for a scholarship in the college of grace. It were well for many professors if instead of following their own devices, and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would enquire for the good old ways of God’s own truth, and beseech the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits. “For thou art the God of my salvation.” The Three-One Jehovah is the Author and Perfecter of salvation to his people. Reader, is he the God of your salvation? Do you find in the Father’s election, in the Son’s atonement, and in the Spirit’s quickening, all the grounds of your eternal hopes? If so, you may use this as an argument for obtaining further blessings; if the Lord has ordained to save you, surely he will not refuse to instruct you in his ways. It is a happy thing when we can address the Lord with the confidence which David here manifests, it gives us great power in prayer, and comfort in trial. “On thee do I wait all the day.” Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we are certain that we shall not wait in vain. It is our duty and our privilege to wait upon the Lord in service, in worship, in expectancy, in trust all the days of our life. Our faith will be tried faith, and if it be of the true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding. We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously he once waited for us.
Reflection
Spurgeon highlights David’s repeated plea for divine teaching and leading in truth. Even after much knowledge, David still saw himself as a pupil in God’s school. The believer who has begun to walk with the Lord soon realizes how much more there is to learn and how much he needs the Spirit’s experimental teaching. Patience in waiting on God is the child of faith.
What we might miss is that self-directed study or following our own thoughts often leads us astray. The safe path is to stay in the Lord’s school with a teachable spirit.
Goad
Are you still a humble student in God’s school, asking to be led in His truth, or have you become self-taught and self-directed in your spiritual life? What would it look like to wait on the Lord all the day with patient, teachable faith?
Tie-In
The morning roots the strength of faith in feeding on the character of the promise-giver. The evening shows us as continual learners who need the Spirit to lead us in truth. Both emphasize dependence: faith is strong when it feeds on God, and the believer remains strong when he remains a learner at God’s feet. The same Lord who gives us promises to feed on also gives us His Spirit to teach us how to walk in them.
Closing
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Soli Deo Gloria.