“Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God!
Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground!”  Psalm 143:10

Last time we looked into ‘teach me to do Your will’, let us now look at Scripture concerning the rest of the verse ‘Let Your good Spirit lead me…’  Because we desire to be taught, we want to see how our Divine Leader leads His people.

*He leads in difficult places for testing:
Deuteronomy 8:2-3 is a wonderful example of God’s teaching according to His purpose for His people:
“And you shall remember the whole way that the LORD your God has lead you these forty years in the wilderness, that He might humble you, testing you to know your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.”  Vs. 2
His purpose was “…that He might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.”  Vs. 3  (Read 8:1-11 for the whole account.)

*He leads like a mother bird:
Deuteronomy 32:11-12
“Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them on its pinions,
the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.”
(Vs. 9-12 is one of my favorite passages.  Read it an rejoice.)

*He leads like a shepherd:
“You lead Your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.”
Psalm 77:20  (Read Psalm 23 and John Chapter 10:1-19)

*His leading is not beyond the reach of His hand:
“If I ascend to heaven, You are there!  If I make my bed in Sheol, You are there!
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the upper most parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me.”  Psalm 139:8-10  (Read Vs. 7-12, better still read all of Psalm 139 and be blessed.)

*He leads steadily to the Cross:
“And they were on the road going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them.  And they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid.  And taking the twelve again, He began to tell them what was to happen to Him, saying, ‘See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn Him to death and deliver Him over to the gentiles.”  Mark 10:32-33

*He leads to the border of the unseen:
“And He led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up His hands He blessed them.  While He blessed them, He parted from them and was carried up into heaven.”  Luke 24:50-51

We have the promised Holy Spirit who is with us always to lead, guide, reveal, convict and convince!  For Jesus Himself said of the Holy Spirit:
“And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth…”  John 16-17

‘But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.”  John 14:26

Let us, therefore, be teachable with the eyes of our understanding focused on our Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent God.  Image! He, the Holy Father, so loved that He gave His Son that we may be members of His family!  How awesome!  With humble and grateful hearts we say, “Thank You Lord!”