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Divine Instruction

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 29, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 22, No. 18.

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Divine Instruction.

"I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye."—Ps. xxxii, 8.
Wilt thou instruct me? Here I wait, Before thy feet, beneath thy throne, A suppliant of a low estate, And rich in want and woe alone.
Wilt thou instruct me? I am blind, And stretch my groping hand for thine; The mist deceives my weary mind With glimmering lights that falsely shine.
Wilt thou instruct me? I am weak, And cannot walk a step alone; Far off appears the good I seek, Far off, uncertain, and unknown.
Wilt thou instruct me? I am ill, The leper not more sick than I : Diseased in mind, and heart, and will, Are not the healing waters nigh?
Wilt thou instruct me? I am faint— Athirst and hungry for the food That has no taste of earthly taint, The soul's sustainment and its good.
Wilt thou instruct me? I have wept, And blinder grew for every tear; Resolved, and not a purpose kept, Faltered, and failed, and fallen here.
Wilt thou instruct me? Thou hast said— Oh faithful promise and most sweet— Thine eye my ways of life shall guide, Fed, healed, and strengthened at thy feet. E. L. E.