Spurgeon: July PM
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"Lead me in Thy truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my
salvation; on Thee do I wait all the day."
--Psalm 25:5
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.