THE MEEK WILL HE GUIDE AND TEACH.
SUCH is His promise: “The meek will He guide in judgment; and the meek will He teach His way.” Ps. 25:9. This scripture is not only a blessed assurance, but it is an implied definition of meekness. Nay, more, it is a test to reveal to the froward heart when the grace of meekness is wanting. The meek man is the man willing to be guided. If he knows humanity, if he knows himself, he will say with the prophet: “O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.” Jer. 10:23. Believing that God’s revelation of His own ways is correct, he will also believe the divine testimony concerning God’s ways: “Jehovah is righteous in all His ways, and gracious in all His works. Jehovah is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth.” Ps. 145:17, 18. Believing this, the meek man will not seek to justify His ways, will not seek to compromise ways with God, will not seek to shape God’s ways after the human, but will seek God’s ways. He knows they are right; he knows all other ways are wrong. Such a man as this God will guide; for he is a teachable man. He delights in the word of God. “Thy word,” declares he, “have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against Thee.” Ps. 119:11. Such a man, the teachable and guided of God, is not swayed by man from the right path. Humble and yielding before God, he will stand immovable as a rock when the tempter seeks to turn him from the right way, when he would induce him to compromise principle. Such a one was “Moses the man of God.” Even so was Jesus Christ, the “meek and lowly of heart.” Pride, haughtiness, self-sufficiency, is sure to meet with disaster and defeat, and prove an effectual bar to progress in the right knowledge of God.