Psalms 25

Scripture
Psalms 25:4-5 Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; ⁵ guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.

⁹ He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.

²¹ May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.

Observation
It's not about me and what I know, but about God in me. Humbling myself and having the ways of the Lord guide me. I need to pray this frequently. God wants to take care of me, but many times I go off on my own "road trip" thinking that will be good, when in fact God is telling me, asking me, pleading with me to have me be humble, ask Him to show me the way, for Him to teach me which path to take in a landscape filled with paths that sometimes look just the same at the beginning, and once I am on the path to not just go on my merry way but continue to ask for guidance while on the path, and while I am walking to teach me about this path and walk because my hope is in Him. God has always wanted to walk with me.. Genesis 3:8 tells me that God was walking around the Garden of Eden looking for Adam and Eve, but they chose to make their own decision and not walk the path that God had established.

Application
How often do I do what Adam and Eve do? Decide to do this or that without following the voice of the Lord, or walk down this path because it looks right-feels good? The guidance in Psalms 25 must be loud in my life. There are many voices calling me here and there, and my own will wanting this or that, but if I humble myself, keep the ways of the Lord above my ways, keep God's instruction above mine and keep all my HOPE in the Lord, I will have refuge in the Lord.

Prayer
Father, forgive me when I do not humble myself before you and ask for your teachings. I repent of my own ways and ask that your ways are the ones I walk in. I cannot hope in anyone but you, so thank you for taking care of me and walking with me in the way you have chosen for me. Amen.