"I Will Instruct You"

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will guide you with My eye." ~Psalm 32:8

The Lord is speaking here.  Think on His words for just a moment.  He is offering to be our Teacher, our Good Shepherd, our Guide.

"Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,

The Holy One of Israel:

“I am the Lord your God,

Who teaches you to profit,

Who leads you by the way you should go."

~Isaiah 48:17

He has promised to teach us.  But there is something that we must do first.  We must come to Him and ask Him to teach us.  This verse in Isaiah says it perfectly:

"Many people shall come and say,

'Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob;

[Then] He will teach us His ways,

And we shall walk in His paths.'

For out of Zion shall go forth the law,

And the word of the Lord from Jerusalem."

~Isaiah 2:3

Although Jerusalem may be far away for most of us, we can approach the holy presence of the Lord through prayer and hear His Words spoken to us through the Scriptures.  It is there that He will teach us.  There that He reveals His wisdom to us.

I love the way Charles Spurgeon puts it: 

"'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, so should we obey the slightest hints of our Master, not needing thunderbolts to startle our incorrigible sluggishness, but being 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."

We are given God's Word and the Holy Spirit.  Our Lord is faithful to teach us, but are we faithful to listen?

Do we sit at the Master's feet, waiting for but a word of His command so that we might immediately obey His command?  Do we love our Lord so much that even the faintest desire of His heart becomes our life mission?  Are we truly the servants of the Lord Mr. Spurgeon talks about?

Do we seek Him for counsel and wisdom?  Will we be faithful to obey whatever the Lord says?  He has promised to answer us--though His Word or through His Spirit, but we must be faithful to seek Him.