Teach me to do Thy will, for Thou art my God.”
This was a prayer of King David. You will notice it is in words of one syllable, but it means a great deal.
Look at the first two words, “Teach me.” The great King David needed to be taught; how much more, little boys and girls.
Not only did David need to be taught but he wished to be taught.
Then who did he ask to teach him? and what did he want to be taught?
He wanted God to teach him His will. Do you wish to have the great God above for your teacher? These are very real and serious questions. One thing I can tell you is, that God is willing to teach you, though you are ever so little, and ever so poor. In His Word He says, “I will teach thee.” Psa. 32:8.
I often find that boys and girls—yes, and men and women too—do not want to be taught of God. They want their own way—to do as they like. I hope you are not like them, are you?
Those who do not want God for their teacher, follow their own hearts; and the Bible says that those who do this, are fools. They are under the power of Satan too, and they get further and further away from the Lord Jesus. If they do not stop and turn right round about, they will die in their sinful state; and where God dwells—where Jesus is—where the holy angels and all the blessed are, they can never be; but are shut out into the blackness forever, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
O, then do pray King David’s prayer in real earnest,
“Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God.” Psa. 143:10.
ML 12/14/1941