LORD, SHOW ME AND TEACH ME YOUR WAY

 ANCHOR OF LIFE DAILY DEVOTIONAL GUIDE For THURSDAY, 16th FEBRUARY, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l

Topic: LORD, SHOW ME AND TEACH ME YOUR WAY

MEMORIZE: “Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths." Psalm 25:4.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 25:4,5.

“Shew me thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.”   

EXPOSITION:

There are two distinctive requests in our today’s devotional: i. Show me your way, Oh Lord; ii. Teach me your way, oh Lord. We ask for way when we don’t know the way and we ask for knowledge of what we don’t know before. The Psalmist in our scripture reading today begs for direction from God in the way of his duty, Ps 25:4-5.  Once and again he here prays to God to teach him. He was a knowing man himself, but the most intelligent, the most observant, both need and desire to be taught of God; from him we must be ever learning.  Observe these points: 

1. What he desired to learn: 

"Teach me, not fine words or fine notions, but Your ways, Your paths, Your truth, the ways in which you walk towards men, which are all mercy and truth (Ps 25:10), and the ways in which you would have me to walk towards you." 

Those are best taught who understand their duty, and know the good things they should do, Ecclesiastes 2:3. God's paths and his truth are the same; divine laws are all founded upon divine truths. The way of God's precepts is the way of truth, Ps 119:30. Christ is both the way and the truth, and therefore we must learn Christ. 

2. What he desired of God, in order to this: 

 (1.) That he would enlighten his understanding concerning his duty:  "Show me thy way, and so teach me." In doubtful cases we should pray earnestly that God would make it plain to us what he would have us to do. 

(2.) That he would incline his will to do it, and strengthen him in it: "Lead me, and so teach me."  Not only as we lead one that is dimsighted, to keep him from missing his way, but as we lead one that is sick, and feeble, and faint, to help him forward in the way and to keep him from fainting and falling. We go no further in the way to heaven than God is pleased to lead us and to hold us up. 

3. What he pleads, 

 (1.) His great expectation from God: Thou art the God of my salvation. Note, Those that choose salvation of God as their end, and make him the God of their salvation, may come boldly to him for direction in the way that leads to that end.  If God save us, he will teach us and lead us. He that gives salvation will give instruction. 

(2.) His constant attendance on God: On thee do I wait all the day. Whence should a servant expect direction what to do but from his own master, on whom he waits all the day? If we sincerely desire to know our duty, with a resolution to do it, we need not question but that God will direct us in it.

PRAYER POINT: Lord, like the psalmist I pray, show me your way and teach Your path in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Numbers 34-36.

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