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Morning and Evening

July 8, Evening

C. H. Spurgeon · Modern retelling

"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 · KJV

When the believer has begun, with trembling feet, to walk in the way of the Lord, he asks to be led still onward, like a little child upheld by its parent's helping hand, and he craves to be further instructed in the alphabet of truth. Experiential 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 place in the college of grace. It would be well for many who profess faith if, instead of following their own devices and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves, they would inquire for the good old ways of God's own truth, and beseech the Holy Spirit to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits. "For thou art the God of my salvation." The Three-One Yahweh 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 David here shows; 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 on the Lord — in service, in worship, in expectancy, in trust — all the days of our life. Our faith will be a tried faith; and if it is of the true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding. We shall not grow weary of waiting on God if we remember how long, and how graciously, He once waited for us.