Doing God's Will.
"Teach me to do Thy will."--Ps. cxliii. 10.
When you see some one doing with very great delight some beautiful and
pleasant piece of work, have you not thought, "I should like to be able to
do that!" and perhaps you have said, "Please, teach me how to do it."
Can you think of anything pleasanter to do than what the very angels are
full of delight in doing? Can you think of anything more beautiful to do
than what is done in the "pleasant land," the beautiful home above? Can
you fancy anything more interesting to do than what the dwellers there
will never get tired of doing for thousands of millions of years? Would
you not like to be taught to do it too?--to begin the pleasant and
beautiful and most interesting work now, instead of waiting till you are
grown up, and then perhaps never learning it at all, because it was put
off now? Then pray this little prayer this morning with all your heart,
"Teach me to do Thy will." For it is His will that is the happiest work
above, and the very happiest thing to do here below.
What is His will? The Prayer-Book version of this Psalm tells you very
simply and sweetly. It says, "Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth
Thee." So doing God's will is just doing the things, one by one, that
please Him.
Why did David ask this? He goes on to say why--"For Thou art my God." If
God is really _our_ God, we too shall wish to do the thing that pleaseth
Him. David did not think he could do it of himself, for he says next, "Let
Thy loving Spirit lead me." That loving Spirit will lead you too, dear
child, and show you how beautiful and grand God's will is, and make you
long to do it always, and teach you to do it. So that even on earth you
may begin to do what the angels are doing in heaven!
"It is but very little
For Him that I can do,
Then let me seek to serve Him,
My earthly journey through;
And, without sigh or murmur,
To do His holy will;
And in my daily duties
His wise commands fulfill."