Learn Of Me

We have thought that we come to know the Lord through teaching and learning, that the intellect can be developed to apprehend the Lord. We put a premium on a literal belief in what the Bible says (every group says that, and every group believes something slightly different, so I wonder how that works) and rest in our understanding of that, without going on to apprehend what we know to be true with our mind.This may be a product of our particular culture,which glorifies the intellectual over the spiritual, or an inherent tendency of the Adamic nature to do things on its own.

Whatever the cause, it has brought us up short in the things of God. Jesus said "Take my yoke upon you and learn of me." He said "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." (John 6:39, 40). Jesus is the main attraction in the Kingdom of God.

The Bible is a road sign. Indeed, we can get hopelessly lost if we don't read the sign or if we misinterpret it. It's good to be able to read the sign and understand what it says, but we should then go to where the sign is pointing instead of exulting in our knowledge about the sign itself. The whole Bible points to a Man, Jesus.

In all our learning, let us learn Jesus. Luke wrote his letter to Theophilus, which in Greeks means "student of God." Let's be students of God, of God Himself and not just His teachings.

We are ever learning and never coming to the knowledge of the truth. Jesus is Truth. We need to educate the heart, to send the heart to the school of the Holy Spirit.

I was in a Bible study once where the teacher said that the Bible is infallible whereas human experience is fallible, therefore we should focus on the letter of the Word and avoid experience in the realms of the Spirit. I thought "That's not what Paul said when he wrote 'That I may know Him." Paul had experienced a revelation of Jesus on the Damascus road, and that experience is what we need to firmly establish us in the truth that God is a person in His own right who deserves to be known and to express His heart in the lives of those who will allow Him to.