DEDICATION

Saturday

 

Psalm 32:8

 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

 

 EXAMPLE

 

At a meeting of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Bobby Richardson, former New York Yankee second baseman, offered a prayer that is a classic in brevity and poignancy: “Dear God, Your will, nothing more, nothing less, nothing else. Amen.”

 

-Bobby Richardson

 

LESSON

 

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. Here the Lord is the speaker, and gives the psalmist an answer to his prayer. Our Savior is our instructor. The Lord himself desires to teach his children to walk in the way of integrity. His holy word and the monitions of the Holy Spirit are the directors of the believer’s daily conversation. We are not pardoned that we may henceforth live after our own lusts, but that we may be educated in holiness and trained for perfection.

A heavenly training is one of the covenant blessings which adoption seals to us: “All thy children shall be taught by the Lord.” Practical teaching is the very best of instruction, and they are thrice happy who, although they never sat at the feet of Gamaliel, and are ignorant of Aristotle, and the ethics of the schools, have nevertheless learned to follow the Lamb whither soever he goes. I will guide thee with mine eye. As servants take their cue from the master’s eye, and a nod or a wink is all that they require, we should obey the slightest hints of our Master, not needing thunderbolts to startle our incorrigible sluggishness, but be controlled by whispers and love touches. The Lord is the great overseer, whose eye in providence overlooks everything. It is well for us to be the sheep of his pasture, following the guidance of his wisdom.

 

Memory Verses: 1 Corinthians 3:16-17