In his book George Mueller of Bristol, A. T. Pierson comments on this verse from the Psalms in a way that both elaborates the present point and will prove highly useful later in this book: Here is a double emphasis upon meekness as a condition of such guidance and teaching. Meekness is a real preference for God’s will. Where this holy habit of mind exists, the whole being becomes so open to impression that, without any outward sign or token, there is an inward recognition and choice of the will of God. God guides, not by a visible sign, but by swaying the judgment. To wait before him, weighing
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