Psalms 32:8

 “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”

This verse, like many of the psalms, is packed with explicit as well as implicit promises. Let’s begin with the fact that God has promised to “instruct” you in the way. Did you happen to notice the incidental promise? God has a plan for you. There is a way He would like your life to go.


Landing the Space Shuttle on the moon seems easy enough. However, the degree of accuracy is equivalent to standing two football fields away from a measly house-fly, then shooting it in the eye! Have you ever considered the heavens? They are full of bodies of planets, stars, asteroids, comets, and cosmic “stuff.” To complicate matters, everything is moving. It all seems impossible until you realize they have ordained patterns, which they methodically follow.

Now look at the meat of the first explicit promise; instruction. Instruct means to impart knowledge in a methodical manner. When God instructs you He will be methodical. He is not like a scatter-brained teacher you had in high school who lost your papers or seemed to talk about the most random and unrelated events. God is a God of order and that is what He is promising to bring to your life if you are willing to accept His instruction.