Good Morning Yamon Ki Yesepar and Nevim Hayomim:
Psalms 25:4 “Show me you ways, teach me your paths.”
This seems to be a common heart cry for many Christians. We really just want to be sure we are in the center of God’s will, and like the writer of this Psalm, we are crying out to God to just show us his way and teach us his paths.
If that is your cry, maybe you could even relate to a more specific understand. The word “show” is the “yada” which is an intimate type of knowing. The writer is just not asking for a knowledge of God’s ways but to me made intimate with them. This word is in a Hiphil imperative form. He is begging God to cause him to bring about some circumstance that will bring him into a intimate understanding of His ways. He is looking for a practical understanding of his ways. How it applies to every aspect of his life.
The word “way” is “Derek” which in it’s primitive form means a doorway to the power and filling of the Spirit of God. The writer’s plea is to be more intimate with God. Like in a marriage relationship where the spouses world, actions, dreams and plans all revolve around his or her mate.
He then asked to be taught His paths. The word teach is “lamed” like the letter. It is a picture of reaching up to heaven in prayer to receive divine knowledge of His path. The word “path” is “arak” which is one’s apportionment or one’s divine destiny.
The writer’s plea is to just be in the center of God’s will, power and plan for his life. Brother Andrew, God’s Smuggler once said: “True danger is not being in the center of God’s will.” We can pray for a job, a relationship, finances, but ultimately, if we pray as David did in this Psalm, just to be intimate with God and in the center of His will, the job, the relationship, finances, etc., will be there if God so wills it. If we are in the center of His will, if we are intimate with his knowledge, and power and we are on the road that he created us to be on, then whatever happens, whatever comes, will bring Him glory and honor and that is really all that is important right? At least it was for David.
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