Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.
It is a prayer asking God to show His ways and lead and teach in His truth, because He is the God and source of salvation, waited on all the day. To wait on Him is to look to Him for guidance and instruction daily, confessing need for His direction and relying on Him at all times and in every circumstance. Receiving that teaching requires a meek, teachable dependence that sets aside personal preference and desire to follow His way and put His interests first. He guides and increases in understanding those who trust Him, seek Him sincerely and learn of Him, while His people must submit fully to what He reveals rather than act impatiently on their own plans. Being so led calls for bearing a true witness by receiving and presenting truth in a gentle, courteous, Christlike spirit rather than in a harsh and condemnatory way.
Prayer for Divine Guidance
Lead me in thy truth and teach me is a prayer asking God to show His ways, teach His paths, and lead in His truth, because He is the God and source of salvation on whom the speaker waits all the day. It is to be offered with a spirit that puts God's concerns before personal convenience or advantage, and with attention to spiritual and eternal interests as Scripture presents them. It is the prayer of those who truly believe the Word, who lift the soul to the Lord and trust in Him not to be put to shame nor to let enemies triumph over them. This is set against lifting the soul to vanity, seeking supremacy, accepting Satan's suggestions, and failing to honor God and openly proclaim allegiance to Him. Those who lift the soul to vanity forfeit right to God's blessings, so the Lord cannot work in harmony with them.
Praying to be led in truth and taught confesses the need for divine guidance and expresses the trust to be placed in God at all times and under all circumstances. That trust is confidence and reliance, and it is the privilege and duty of every Christian while waiting on Him all the day. The prayer belongs with asking God to remember His tender mercy and lovingkindness and not to remember sins of youth and transgressions. It stands with confidence that He, being good and upright, teaches sinners, guides the meek in judgment and teaches the meek His way, with all His paths mercy and truth to those keeping His covenant and testimonies.
The title God of salvation shows His greatness, known together with Psalm 24 and Psalm 50.
Waiting Trust and Witness
Waiting on God means looking to Him for guidance and instruction throughout the day, with His will and counsel sought daily as the source of salvation who teaches and leads in His truth. It expresses a learner's willingness to receive His instruction and follow His way in order to serve Him. Receiving that teaching requires a meek, teachable, waiting dependence that puts His concerns before personal convenience or advantage. It calls for setting aside personal preferences, surrendering personal desires, and attending to spiritual and eternal interests as Scripture presents them.
He guides and teaches those who trust in Him, seek Him sincerely, and sit at the feet of Jesus to learn of Him. The Holy Spirit softens their hearts by grace to apply His promise to guide in His way. Their understanding continually increases because He Himself is their wisdom. His people must therefore wait on Him for instruction and learn His way rather than act impatiently or follow their own plans. They are to seek His wisdom, submit fully to His direction, and obey what He reveals, for keeping His way brings reward.
The prayer belongs to one who feels deep need of divine wisdom, to be prayed hour after hour while lying awake at night asking Him to reveal His ways and to lead and teach in truth as the God of salvation on whom to wait all the day. Such night pleading in physical weakness trusts Him for healing power, renewed physical strength, courage, peace, and a daily sense of His favor. That favor sustains heavy responsibilities, to speak and write reproof, warning and encouragement, and to make truth clear so those out of the way are convicted and return. Hungering and thirsting after His righteousness in this way is met with relief, rejoicing, strengthened hope and thanksgiving.
Being thus led and taught calls His people to be Christians in every sense, bearing a powerful witness in favor of the truth and giving no aid to Satan's science. Those in positions of trust who need a new conversion must study the Word not by skimming the surface but by digging deep as a miner digs for hidden ore. Satan is determined to break down the fortifications of truth, and every follower is charged not to turn aside from guarding God's sacred principles. Truth must be received with meek, teachable, waiting dependence and presented in that same gentle, courteous, clean, Christlike spirit, with pleasant words and manner as Christ taught. It is not to be offered in a fierce, harsh, forbidding, condemnatory way as a scourge that turns people away, mars its influence, and causes them to refuse it, and this belongs especially to ministers proclaiming the Word and offering its beautiful fruit.
The Lord will teach His will and His way to workmen who are willing to be taught. They must take counsel from Him at every step to have success, being taught and led by Him, taking up the work prayerfully and carefully in the fear of God rather than rashly. They must also counsel together to labor in harmony with united effort in trying times. This applies to teaching the Bible in school work, where past help will continue if His word is steadfastly practiced, and where older workers encourage younger ones and never speak lightly or disparagingly of them.
It is a prayer asking God to show His ways and lead and teach in His truth, because He is the God and source of salvation, waited on all the day. To wait on Him is to look to Him for guidance and instruction daily, confessing need for His direction and relying on Him at all times and in every circumstance. Receiving that teaching requires a meek, teachable dependence that sets aside personal preference and desire to follow His way and put His interests first. He guides and increases in understanding those who trust Him, seek Him sincerely and learn of Him, while His people must submit fully to what He reveals rather than act impatiently on their own plans. Being so led calls for bearing a true witness by receiving and presenting truth in a gentle, courteous, Christlike spirit rather than in a harsh and condemnatory way.
Prayer for Divine Guidance
Lead me in thy truth and teach me is a prayer asking God to show His ways, teach His paths, and lead in His truth, because He is the God and source of salvation on whom the speaker waits all the day. It is to be offered with a spirit that puts God's concerns before personal convenience or advantage, and with attention to spiritual and eternal interests as Scripture presents them. It is the prayer of those who truly believe the Word, who lift the soul to the Lord and trust in Him not to be put to shame nor to let enemies triumph over them. This is set against lifting the soul to vanity, seeking supremacy, accepting Satan's suggestions, and failing to honor God and openly proclaim allegiance to Him. Those who lift the soul to vanity forfeit right to God's blessings, so the Lord cannot work in harmony with them.
Praying to be led in truth and taught confesses the need for divine guidance and expresses the trust to be placed in God at all times and under all circumstances. That trust is confidence and reliance, and it is the privilege and duty of every Christian while waiting on Him all the day. The prayer belongs with asking God to remember His tender mercy and lovingkindness and not to remember sins of youth and transgressions. It stands with confidence that He, being good and upright, teaches sinners, guides the meek in judgment and teaches the meek His way, with all His paths mercy and truth to those keeping His covenant and testimonies.
The title God of salvation shows His greatness, known together with Psalm 24 and Psalm 50.
Waiting Trust and Witness
Waiting on God means looking to Him for guidance and instruction throughout the day, with His will and counsel sought daily as the source of salvation who teaches and leads in His truth. It expresses a learner's willingness to receive His instruction and follow His way in order to serve Him. Receiving that teaching requires a meek, teachable, waiting dependence that puts His concerns before personal convenience or advantage. It calls for setting aside personal preferences, surrendering personal desires, and attending to spiritual and eternal interests as Scripture presents them.
He guides and teaches those who trust in Him, seek Him sincerely, and sit at the feet of Jesus to learn of Him. The Holy Spirit softens their hearts by grace to apply His promise to guide in His way. Their understanding continually increases because He Himself is their wisdom. His people must therefore wait on Him for instruction and learn His way rather than act impatiently or follow their own plans. They are to seek His wisdom, submit fully to His direction, and obey what He reveals, for keeping His way brings reward.
The prayer belongs to one who feels deep need of divine wisdom, to be prayed hour after hour while lying awake at night asking Him to reveal His ways and to lead and teach in truth as the God of salvation on whom to wait all the day. Such night pleading in physical weakness trusts Him for healing power, renewed physical strength, courage, peace, and a daily sense of His favor. That favor sustains heavy responsibilities, to speak and write reproof, warning and encouragement, and to make truth clear so those out of the way are convicted and return. Hungering and thirsting after His righteousness in this way is met with relief, rejoicing, strengthened hope and thanksgiving.
Being thus led and taught calls His people to be Christians in every sense, bearing a powerful witness in favor of the truth and giving no aid to Satan's science. Those in positions of trust who need a new conversion must study the Word not by skimming the surface but by digging deep as a miner digs for hidden ore. Satan is determined to break down the fortifications of truth, and every follower is charged not to turn aside from guarding God's sacred principles. Truth must be received with meek, teachable, waiting dependence and presented in that same gentle, courteous, clean, Christlike spirit, with pleasant words and manner as Christ taught. It is not to be offered in a fierce, harsh, forbidding, condemnatory way as a scourge that turns people away, mars its influence, and causes them to refuse it, and this belongs especially to ministers proclaiming the Word and offering its beautiful fruit.
The Lord will teach His will and His way to workmen who are willing to be taught. They must take counsel from Him at every step to have success, being taught and led by Him, taking up the work prayerfully and carefully in the fear of God rather than rashly. They must also counsel together to labor in harmony with united effort in trying times. This applies to teaching the Bible in school work, where past help will continue if His word is steadfastly practiced, and where older workers encourage younger ones and never speak lightly or disparagingly of them.