When a believer first begins to walk in the way of the Lord, those feet tremble. Like a small child reaching up for a parent's steadying hand, we cry out to be led further. We hunger to learn even the most basic alphabet of truth. This prayer carries the weight of someone desperate for experimental teaching—not theory, but lived experience!

David knew so much, yet he felt his ignorance keenly. He longed to stay enrolled in God's school. Look at it—four times in just two verses he applies for a scholarship in the college of grace! How different from so many professors today who follow their own devices, cutting out new paths of thought for themselves. If only they would inquire after the good old ways of God's own truth. If only they would beseech the Holy Ghost for sanctified understandings and teachable spirits.

"For you are the God of my salvation." The Three-One Jehovah is both Author and Perfecter of his people's salvation. Reader, is he the God of YOUR salvation? Do you find in the Father's election, in the Son's atonement, and in the Spirit's quickening all the grounds of your eternal hopes? If so, then use this as an argument for obtaining further blessings! Think—if the Lord has ordained to save you, surely he will not refuse to instruct you in his ways. What a happy thing when we can address the Lord with the confidence David manifests here! It gives us great power in prayer and comfort in trial.

"On you I wait all the day." Patience is the fair handmaid and daughter of faith. We cheerfully wait when we are certain that we shall not wait in vain. It is our duty and our privilege to wait upon the Lord—in service, in worship, in expectancy, in trust—all the days of our life. Our faith will be tried faith, and if it be of the true kind, it will bear continued trial without yielding.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously he once waited for us.