Psalm 25:5

When the believer has begun with trembling feet to walk in the way of the Lord, he asks to be continually led onward like a little child upheld by its parent’s helping hand, and he craves to be further instructed in the alphabet of truth. Experiential teaching is the essence of this prayer.

David knew much, but he felt his ignorance and desired to continue in the Lord’s school: four times in two verses he applies for a scholarship in the college of grace. It would be well for many who profess faith if, instead of following their own inventions and carving out new paths of thought for themselves, they would seek the good old ways of God’s own truth and earnestly ask the Holy Spirit to give them sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.

“For thou art the God of my salvation.” The Three-One Jehovah is the Author and Perfecter of salvation for His people. 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 quickening, all the grounds of your eternal hopes?

If so, you may use this as an argument for obtaining further blessings; if the Lord has ordained to save you, surely He will not refuse to instruct you in His ways. It is a happy thing when we can address the Lord with the confidence that David here manifests; it gives us great power in prayer and comfort in trial.

“On thee do I wait all the day.” Patience is the noble handmaid and daughter of faith; we cheerfully wait when we are certain that we will not wait in vain. It is our duty and our privilege to wait on the Lord in service, in worship, in expectancy, and in trust all the days of our life. Our faith will be a tested faith, and if it is of the true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding. We will not grow weary of waiting on God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.