You shall guide me with Your counsel

You shall guide me with Your counsel

" You shall guide me with Your counsel—and afterwards receive me to glory! " Psalm 73:24

This is the language of Asaph. He had proved the folly of following counsel of his own heart. He says: "My feet had almost gone, my steps had well-near slipped!" Deeply humbled on account of his folly—he expresses, in the text, his steadfast purpose to be led henceforth by the Lord alone. Addressing Him, he says, "You shall guide me with Your counsel—and afterwards receive me to glory!"

May the language of Asaph be the language of your heart, beloved reader.

Consider what a wise and gracious Counselor the Lord is. His understanding is infinite. He is well-acquainted with you and all your circumstances. He knows the way that you should take.

And He is as good as He is wise. He will therefore give you faithful and kind counsel—counsel which, if you follow, will prove for your highest advantage in the present life, and the life that is to come.

If you inquire how you may expect to receive counsel from the Lord, we reply:
  by His Word,
  by His faithful ministers,
  and by His Spirit.

Renounce dependence on your own understanding,
put no confidence in the flesh,
sit at the Lord's feet,
seek, in fervent prayer, His guidance—
and He will instruct you, and teach you in the way you shall go.

"In all your ways acknowledge Him—and He will direct your paths."

"To You, great Counselor divine—I now commit my way,
  Into my inmost spirit shine—and guide me day by day!"

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