Steak and Precepts

Do you want the knowledge of God in your life? Do you sometimes wish God would just download it into your brain all at once! I know I have!

"To whom will He teach knowledge, and to whom will He explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast? For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little." Isaiah 28:9-10

These verses are very clear about who God is going to teach, and how He is going to teach them.

God is not going to force His people into spending time with Him or learning about Him. We have to want to learn about Him. We need to want to spent time with Him. It takes more then just sitting through church on Sunday. You know those people who seem super close to God? The reason they have such an intimate relationship with God, and why they seem to know so much about God, is because they took the time. If you want that kind of intimate relationship with God, then you need to go after it yourself.

And sorry my friends, much to our dismay, God will never do a super download on us. How would we learn? How would we see each lesson paralleled or literally played out in our lives? How would we develop that close, intimate relationship with God if we never needed to learn more about Him?All of that is precept upon precept, and line upon line in our lives.

All the Jane Austen fans out there, no matter how much we study her, her books, and the people in  her life, we don't really know her. It's not like that with God! We can spend time with Him, and we can really know Him. Just take the time. Be someone who can eat steak. Be someone God can teach something to, one precept at a time.

---Joy