"… If I have found grace in thy sight, SHEW ME NOW THY WAY, that I may know thee, that
I may find grace in thy sight. . . ." (Ex. 33:13).

What a wholesome desire, and if Moses needed it in his day, how much more do we.

The headlines of the 107th Psalm are "God’s manifold providence in divers varieties of life". And
what a record it presents, not only in showing the definite need of being shown the way but also
the wondrous provision God has made for every step of it.

This Psalm begins with an appeal to give thanks unto the Lord for He is good and also because
His mercy endureth forever. The redeemed of the Lord are to say so, whom He has redeemed and
gathered out. So we doubtless can see through it all an appeal to our own hearts. He tells of how
they WANDERED IN THE SOLITARY WAY, and how solitary a way it is when we wander
instead of being led. Yes, "A SOLITARY WAY", and left alone to wander.

Oh keep my soul, then, Jesus,
Abiding still with Thee,
And if I wander, teach me
Soon back to Thee to flee.

"They wandered in a solitary way in the wilderness, they found NO CITY to dwell in."

Prone; to wander, Lord, I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love:
Yet Thou, Lord, has deigned to seal it
With Thy Spirit from above.

The loneliness and their experiences cause them to cry out in their trouble. "And He led them
forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation," (Ps. 107:7). Oh, to find grace
in His sight, and to be shown His way!

"Teach me Thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies (literally
those which observe me)." (Ps. 27:11). See also Ps. 54:5; 56:2; and 59:10, for "mine observers".
"Lead me, O Lord, in Thy righteousness because of (mine observers); make Thy way straight
before my face." (Ps. 5:8). "Teach me Thy way, O Lord; I will walk in Thy truth:unite my heart
to fear Thy Name." (Ps. 86:11). "Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up
my soul unto Thee." (Ps. 143:8). "0 Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself:it is not
in man that walketh to direct his steps." (Jer. 10:23). "Order my steps in Thy word. . . ." (Ps.
119:133). "I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. . . ." (Ps. 32:8).

"The meek will He guide in judgment:and the meek will He teach His way." (Ps. 25:9).

Moses was the meekest man in all the earth. He desired to be shown God’s way, and God showed

it to him and said, "Thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way
wherein they must walk, and the work they must do.” (Ex. 18:20). Yet it was said of them ". .
.the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way". (Num. 21:4).

"And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the
wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou
wouldest keep His commandments, or no." (Deut. 8:2). These things were to be taught their
children. "And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." (Deut.
11:19). God was greatly Concerned for His own and is still concerned today. ". . . That ye may
know the way by which ye must go:for ye have not passed this way heretofore". (Joshua 3:4).

Departure and decline marked Israel’s day as it does ours. "And yet they would not hearken to
their judges, . . . they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the
commandments of the Lord; but they did not so." (Judges 2:17).

What a testimony is borne to Samuel. ". . . there is in this city a man of God, and he is an
honorable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass:now let us go thither; peradventure he can
shew us our way that we should go." (I Sam. 9:6).

Listen to his message, "For the Lord will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake:
because it hath pleased the Lord to make you His people. Moreover, as for me, God forbid that
I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you:but I will teach you the good and the right
way:Only fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart:for consider how great things
He hath done for you." (I Sam. 12:22-24).

"Yet Thou in Thy manifold mercies forsook them not in the wilderness:the pillar of the cloud
departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way, neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew
them light and the way wherein they should go." (Neh. 9:19). May it ever be for each one of us
to pray to God, saying, "cause me to know the way wherein I should walk. . . ." (Ps. 143:8).
And, "Teach me to do Thy will; for Thou art my God. . ." (Ps. 143:10). And, "Thine ears shall
hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand,
and when ye turn to the left." (Isa. 30:21).