Thursday, 26 April 2012

Psalm 25


David’s prayer is that God Himself would teach David. David doesn’t pray for a mentor or a human teacher. He wants God to teach him, because his God is his Saviour and David’s hope is in God, no one else. 

David’s prayer was answered in his life, through the ministry of the Holy Spirit to him. David couldn’t sit at Jesus’ feet like the apostles did. He couldn’t walk with Jesus and watch Him as the Lord lived His life on earth. The Holy Spirit was with David, teaching him the nature of God, teaching him the will of God. 

In this sense we are the same as David. We cannot walk with Jesus as the apostles did, but we have the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom Jesus told us would teach us all things. We have the promised Holy Spirit, who entered us and changed us. 

Do we listen to the Spirit? Do we learn from Him; that is, listen and put into practice the things we are told? Or do we seek after humans to teach us? 
O Holy Spirit, teach us through the Word today. Reveal God our Saviour to us, we pray.

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