Our Teacher and Counselor

"I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go; I will counsel you with My eye upon you" (Psalm 32:8, NASB).

God is our teacher and our counselor, and His eye is always upon us. We must be open to His instruction, teaching, and counsel--all of which are declared in His Word.

Here is how Paul Tournier put it, "God guides us, despite our uncertainties and our vagueness, even through our failings and mistakes. He often starts us off to the left, only to bring us up in the end to the right; or else He brings us back to the right, after a long detour, because we started off by mistake to the left in the belief we were obeying Him. He leads us step by step, from event to event. Only afterwards, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us."

How true this is. When we survey our lives, we see how the hand of God has steered our course, and we begin to understand how much He loves us. He is the God who is always there. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He loves us with an everlasting love, and He takes good care of us, because we are His property.

Thomas Merton said, "We must learn to realize that the love of God seeks us in every situation, and seeks our good."

How true. He cares about you, and you can cast all your cares upon Him. He will lead you and guide you, and His eye is always upon you.