# The Way Day 4 > Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God. ### Opening Prayer: *Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts, see if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (Psalm 139:23-24)* #### Psalm for the Week: Psalm 25 #### Teach Me Your Paths *[a] Of David.25 To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.2 O my God, in you I trust; let me not be put to shame; let not my enemies exult over me. 3 Indeed, none who wait for you shall be put to shame; they shall be ashamed who are wantonly treacherous. 4 Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.6 Remember your mercy, O Lord, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old. 7 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me,for the sake of your goodness, O Lord!* *8 Good and upright is the Lord; therefore he instructs sinners in the way. 9 He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble his way. 10 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.11 For your name's sake, O Lord, pardon my guilt, for it is great.12 Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose.13 His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land.14 The friendship[b] of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.15 My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.16 Turn to me and be gracious to me,for I am lonely and afflicted.17 The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses.18 Consider my affliction and my trouble,and forgive all my sins.19 Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me. 20 Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.21 May integrity and uprightness preserve me, for I wait for you.22 Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles.* #### Scripture for the Day: Jeremiah 6:16 *16 Thus says the Lord:“Stand by the roads, and look,and ask for the ancient paths,where the good way is; and walk in it,and find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’* #### Reading for Reflection: *As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God—to give God "elbow room." We calculate and estimate, and say that this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as He chooses. Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into our preaching in a way we had never looked for Him to come? Do not look for God to come in any particular way, but look for Him. That is the way to make room for Him. Expect Him to come, but do not expect Him only in a certain way. However much we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that at any minute He may break in. We are apt to overlook this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. All of a sudden God meets the life—"When it was the good pleasure of God…"* ​ *Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes. (My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers)* #### Reflection and Listening: silent and written #### Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself #### Song for the Week: Come and Welcome *From the cross uplifted high* *Where the Savior deigns to die* *What melodious sounds I hear* *Bursting on my ravished ear* *Love¹s redeeming work is done* *Come and welcome, sinner, come.* *Sprinkled now with blood the throne* *Why beneath thy burdens groan* *On my pierced body laid* *Justice owns the ransom paid* *Bow the knee and kiss the Son* *Come and welcome, sinner, come.* *Spread for thee the festal board* *See with richest dainties stored* *To thy Father¹s bosom pressed* *Yet again a child confessed* *Never from His house to roam* *Come and welcome, sinner, come.* *Soon the days of life shall end* *Lo, I come, your Savior, Friend* *Safe your spirit to convey* *To the realms of endless day* *Up to my eternal home.* *Come and welcome, sinner, come.* *Come and welcome, sinner, come.* ### Closing Prayer: *May those without hope take heart in you, O Christ. May those with no home find shade at your right hand. May those near the end see beginnings; may those at the last become first. At the foot of your cross, O Christ, I come in prayer. O Christ, be my help, O Christ, be my hope. Amen. (Pamela Hawkins, Weavings Volume XXVI, Number 2)*