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I. THE WAY OF TRUTH. It is the way of God; for the Lord is the God of truth: it is the way of Christ; for, said He, "I am the way," etc. it is the way of the Spirit; for " the Spirit beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth." And as all that we know of God — of God who made us by His power, of Christ who redeemed us by His blood, of the Spirit who renews us by His grace — is contained in Scripture, the way of truth" is the way of God's Word. "Sanctify them through Thy truth: Thy Word is truth."

II. TO CHOOSE THE WAY OF TRUTH.

1. To determine, with entire honesty of intention, and with full purpose of heart, that you will walk, as far as you know it, in the way of God's precepts — entertaining, not only a confident hope, but cherishing a firm assurance, that so doing you shall attain, sooner or later, when the days of your appointed time are past, to the end of God's promises.

2. To be careful that, so far as lies in our power, we act out what we have determined; that we do not, like too many, ask one thing in our prayers, and seek another in our practice; that we do not through the after stages engage in any occupation, or devote ourselves to any amusement, or join ourselves to any society, by which our early approach to God may be made to seem hypocrisy, and our very petitions be turned into sin.

3. A continual dependence upon the help of God, as promised for the sake of Christ, and conveyed by the influence of the Holy Spirit; and not only a continual dependence upon it, but a constant expectation of it; and not only a constant expectation of it, but an earnest and frequent entreaty for it.

(T. Dale, M. A.)

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KJV: I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.

WEB: I have chosen the way of truth. I have set your ordinances before me.