Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth.

Psalm 25 from the daily reading in the One Year Bible

To You, Lord, I lift up my soul.
² My God, in You I trust,
Do not let me be ashamed;
Do not let my enemies rejoice over me.
³ Indeed, none of those who wait for You will be ashamed;
^[Those who deal treacherously without cause will be ashamed.

⁴ Make me know Your ways, Lord;
Teach me Your paths.
⁵ Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You I wait all the day.
⁶ Remember, Lord, Your compassion and Your faithfulness,
For they have been from of old.
⁷ Do not remember the sins of my youth or my wrongdoings;
Remember me according to Your faithfulness,
For Your goodness’ sake, Lord.

⁸ The Lord is good and upright;
Therefore He instructs sinners in the way.
⁹ He leads the humble in justice,
And He teaches the humble His way.
¹⁰ All the paths of the Lord are faithfulness and truth
To those who comply with His covenant and His testimonies.
¹¹ For the sake of Your name, Lord,
Forgive my wrongdoing, for it is great.

¹² Who is the person who fears the Lord?
He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
¹³ His soul will dwell in prosperity,
And his descendants will inherit the land.
¹⁴ The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him,
^[And He will make them know His covenant.
¹⁵ My eyes are continually toward the Lord,
For He will rescue my feet from the net.

¹⁶ Turn to me and be gracious to me,
For I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷ The troubles of my heart are enlarged;
Bring me out of my distresses.
¹⁸ Look at my misery and my trouble,
And forgive all my sins.
¹⁹ Look at my enemies, for they are many,
And they hate me with violent hatred.
²⁰ Guard my soul and save me;
Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
²¹ Let integrity and uprightness protect me,
For I wait for You.
²² Redeem Israel, God,
From all his distress.

The psalmist says:  Make me know Your ways, Lord; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; For You I wait all the day.  God has revealed His way, the path and the truth to us.  In John 14:6 Jesus says:  “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.”   In John 16:13 Jesus says:  “When He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.”  

The psalmist says:  Remember, Lord, Your compassion and Your faithfulness, For they have been from of old. Do not remember the sins of my youth or my wrongdoings; Remember me according to Your faithfulness, For Your goodness’ sake, Lord.  Romans 5:8 says:   God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.    1 John 1:5-10 says:  God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.   If we want to see and know God’s faithfulness, then like the psalmist, we need to confess our sins. He is faithful to cleanse us for the sake of goodness, that we might become the righteousness of Christ. 

The psalmist says:  He leads the humble in justice, And He teaches the humble His way. All the paths of the Lord are faithfulness and truth To those who comply with His covenant and His testimonies. For the sake of Your name, Lord, Forgive my wrongdoing, for it is great. Who is the person who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way he should choose. His soul will dwell in prosperity, And his descendants will inherit the land.  God gave us each a free will and He makes it clear that we have a choice and we determine our outcome.  In Deuteronomy 30:15-20 God says:  “See, I have set before you today life and prosperity, and death and adversity; in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that you may live and multiply, and that the Lord your God may bless you in the land where you are entering to possess it. But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them, I declare to you today that you shall surely perish. You will not prolong your days in the land where you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess it. I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the Lord your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”   In Isaiah 5:20 God says:  Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;  Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!  In John 3:16-21, Jesus, who redeems us from the consequences of sin says:  “God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.”      I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live.  

The psalmist says:  The secret of the Lord is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His covenant. My eyes are continually toward the Lord, For He will rescue my feet from the net. Turn to me and be gracious to me, For I am lonely and afflicted. The troubles of my heart are enlarged; Bring me out of my distresses. Look at my misery and my trouble, And forgive all my sins. Look at my enemies, for they are many, And they hate me with violent hatred. Guard my soul and save me; Do not let me be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.  Jesus says:  “Peace I leave you, My peace I give you; not as the world gives, do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled, nor fearful.” (John 14:27)   “These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS.” (Matthew 11:29)  “Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20) 

Thank You heavenly Father, Lord Jesus Christ and precious Holy Spirit. To You, Lord, I lift up my soul. My God, in You I trust.   Amen.