Evening, July 8

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"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.