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 NIV)
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.