Morning & Evening Devotional Reading–

July 8– Evening

by C. H. Spurgeon, revised and edited by W. C. Neff

“Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; on you I wait all day long.” 

—Psalm 25:5

When the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the Lord, he asks to be led even further onward like a little child upheld by its parent’s helping hand; he craves to be further instructed in

the personal experience of God’s truth. David knew much, but he felt his ignorance and desired to be in the Lord’s school. Four times in just two verses he applies for a scholarship in the college of grace. It would be good for many professing Christians to stop following their own devices and cutting out new paths of thought for themselves and, instead, inquire for more of God’s own truth. May they beg the Holy Ghost to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.

“You [Lord] are the God of my salvation.” God— Father, Son, and Holy Spirit– is the Author and Perfecter of salvation. Dear 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 awakening all the grounds of your eternal hopes? If so, you may use this as an argument for obtaining further blessing; if the Lord has ordained to save you, surely he will not refuse to instruct you in his ways.

Let us address the Lord with the same confidence as David, for it gives us great power in prayer and comfort in trial. “On you [Lord] do I wait all day long.” Patience is the servant and daughter of faith. We cheerfully wait when we know we aren’t waiting for nothing. 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, and, if it is true faith, it will bear continued trial without yielding. We will not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously he once waited for us. [M&E]