Through the Bible - Deuteronomy 20-22, Mark 14:53-72
Good morning,
When you go about seeking a profession you want to learn from someoone with experience and knowledge in the field. You go to college to learn from a professor, in the trades you may learn from a master craftsman. Why should it be any different in the Christian life? Yet so many professing Christians devote little time learning about or learning from The Master.
For today's verse we'll go to Matthew 10.
Matt 10:24 "Students are not greater than their teacher, and slaves are not greater than their master. 25 Students are to be like their teacher, and slaves are to be like their master. NLT
Do you remember a time in your life where you shrugged off instruction with the belief that you were smart enough to figure it out or learn it on your own? Have you ever tried to assemble something without reading the instructions and come to the end with parts left over? Something is missing in the toy or product?
John MacArthur writes, "We alll ought to recognize that true disciples learn from their teachers in order to be just like the teacher, and that faithful slaves work for their masters to be just like the master. On another occasion, Jesus taught this: "A pupil is not above the teacher, but everyone, after he has been fully trained, will be like his teacher" (Luke 6:40). The disciples overriding purpose is to emulate his teacher..... not only the teachers' wisdom and character but also how the teacher treats others."
As Christians were are to learn from our Master, Jesus Christ. We are to be "More Like the Master".
More like the Master I would ever be,
More of His meekness, more humility;
More zeal to labor, more courage to be true,
More consecration for work He bids me do.
More of His meekness, more humility;
More zeal to labor, more courage to be true,
More consecration for work He bids me do.
More like the Master is my daily prayer;
More strength to carry crosses I must bear;
More earnest effort to bring His kingdom in;
More of His Spirit, the wanderer to win.
More like the Master I would live and grow;
More of His love to others I would show;
More self denial, like His in Galilee,
More like the Master I long to ever be.
As you read the words to this old hymn, did you notice an area in your life where you need to be "more like the Master?". Pray about it and work on it.
"When people realize it is the living God you are presenting and not some idol that makes them feel good, they are going to turn on you, even people in your own family. There is a great irony here: proclaiming so much love, experiencing so much hate! But don't quit. Don't cave in. It is all well worth it in the end. It is not success you are after in such times but survival. Be survivors! Before you've run out of options, the Son of Man will have arrived.
"A student doesn't get a better desk than her teacher. A laborer doesn't make more money than his boss. Be content — pleased, even — when you, my students, my harvest hands, get the same treatment I get.
(from THE MESSAGE.)
(from THE MESSAGE.)
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