Take My yoke upon you and learn from
Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Matthew 11:29
The great
business of Christians is to learn Christ. This is not just a subject to study.
I want to ask you: What is the greatest desire in your life? I wonder if it is
the same as mine! The greatest desire in my heart – and the longer I live the
stronger it grows – is to understand the Lord Jesus. There is so much that I do
not understand about Him. I am always coming up against problems about Him, and
they are not intellectual problems at all, but spiritual ones: problems of the
heart. Why did the Lord Jesus say and do certain things? Why is He dealing with
me as He is? He is always too deep for me, and I want to understand Him. It is
the most important thing in life to understand the Lord Jesus. Well, we are
here that He may bring us to some better understanding of Himself. The material
of the Word will not be new – it will be old and well-known Scripture. Perhaps
we think that we know the Gospel by John very well. Well, you may, but I do
not. I am discovering that this Gospel contains deeper truth and value than I
know anything about....
The one
business of disciples is to know Him, and to do what He called His disciples to
do: "Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me" (Matthew
11:29). Jesus came to bring heavenly knowledge in His own person, and in His
person we come into heavenly knowledge. It is not just what He says: it is what
He says He is. Every true teacher is not one who says a lot of
things, but one who, when he says things, gives something of himself.
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