A youth ministry initiative by RBC Ministries
where you can find devotionals and resources for youth.
A youth ministry initiative by RBC Ministries
where you can find devotionals and resources for youth.
September 19, 2008
The highest goal of learning is to know God.
READ: Isaiah 50:4-6, Luke 2:46-52
They found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions. —Luke 2:46
The poster in the church hallway pictured a young boy dressed in Middle Eastern clothing, with Bible in hand, walking up a hill to church. The caption read: “Jesus was a good Christian boy who went to Sunday school every Sunday.”
As a Jewish boy, Jesus didn’t go to Sunday school and church on Sunday, so the poster was inappropriate. But the picture is correct in portraying Jesus’ desire to be in His Father’s temple to listen to His teaching.
When Jesus was 12, He went with His parents to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover (Luke 2:41-42). On their way home, His parents realized He was not with them. When they returned, they “found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them and asking them questions” (v.46).
Jesus had the heart of a learner-disciple. Isaiah writes of Him as Jehovah’s Servant: “The Lord God . . . awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. The Lord God has opened My ear” (50:4-5). In His humanity, the Son was open to learn from His Father.
Jesus’ example challenges us to be listeners to God’s Word. We too can become learner-disciples if we’ll keep our hearts open to God’s teaching. — Anne Cetas
Source: Our Daily Bread
Filed under Our Daily Bread and tagged with Discipleship, Spiritual growth.
I pay very little attention to my ear. With regards to my mind, I’d ensure that it is well fed with good books. And with my mouth, I’d guard myself from unwholesome speech. But what about my ear? Do I have a pair of good ears? May God “awakens my ear to hear as the learned.”
Isaiah 50:4
The Sovereign LORD has given me an instructed tongue,
to know the word that sustains the weary.
He wakens me morning by morning,
wakens my ear to listen like one being taught.
It is so easy to slack in my daily Quiet Time. But I thank the Lord that He wakes me up every morning to help me tune my mind, heart and ears to His Word. It is my prayer that I will continue to be a good listener that is rooted in the Truth, and that my life would be transformed by His Word