Day 23: Teach Me Your Paths

“Make me to know your ways, O 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 long.” 

Psalm 25: 4-5 

Love it or hate it, attending school is part of education.  We go (or are sent!) to learn, to be taught, to gain knowledge.  In this Psalm, David requests participation in the Lord’s school.  He wants to know God’s ways, his truth, his paths.  It is the cry of ‘your ways are higher than my ways’, the heart of ‘not my will, but yours’, it is the desire to live and ‘walk in a manner worthy of the Lord.’  

But as David calls to the ‘God of my salvation’, he speaks to One whose ways he knows, are so different to ours.  One whose way, as demonstrated by his Son’s life and then death on a cross - the ultimate act of the God of salvation, took a very different path; death to self, love of neighbour, sacrifice for others, forgiveness for all.  The Lord’s school is not for the faint hearted but for those who, like David, are confident in the steadfast love and faithfulness of the ‘God of my salvation’. 

Liz Green