Teach me your way, Lord, that I may rely on your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11 NIV
With all that has been said, I believe it won’t be out of place to pray this prayer, for how best can we know God’s way but only when we are been taught by Him. Likewise, the best way to live as Christians is with an undivided heart. In fact, that’s what we’re called to have, a pure heart.
God has a way for every man. He has a course, a mission for each of us to follow. Meanwhile, man is ignorant this way. He is in darkness. Unless God reveals His way to man, his ordinary knowledge and wisdom. Cannot identify it. God alone can teach that way. Therefore, like the Psalmist, we ought to cry unto Him and say: “Teach me your way, Lord”.
This verse presented God’s way to us in three aspects of knowledge, feeling and conduct. As knowledge, it illumines our intellect or guides our thinking in relation to those matters of which religion takes cognisance. Thus, we need God to teach us to grasp such knowledge.
As feeling, it awakens right promptings within us in relation to those matters. Knowledge as moved from our head to heart; its light has become the warmth of our emotion. For in knowing who God really is, we can live in continuous reverence and awe of Him.
As conduct, it furnishes rules for our doings. Divine truth is first light in relation to men; this truth or light received into our hearts becomes converted into love; and this love becomes a mighty propelling force, impelling us irresistibly along the line of truth and righteousness.
So, as we pray to God for divine guidance, we must do so with an undivided heart. Because if the heart not united, we would only be praying in vain. If one part of the heart is looking towards God’s light and the other pulling away from it, there is nothing but confusion and indecision. In the same way, God’s divine guidance would have been vain.
