Words of Grace

By Rev. Mahlon Nevel

A little boy had just completed his first day of school. His mother, wanting to find out how he had done, asked him what he had learned. “I guess I didn’t learn anything,” he answered. “They said I had to go back again tomorrow.”

The Bible tells us that any person who continues to learn, day after day, is truly wise. He “will hear and will increase learning,” according to Proverbs 1:5.

“Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be wiser. Teach a just man, and he will increase in learning” (Proverbs 9:9).

“Take my yoke upon you,” Jesus said, “and Jesus said, and learn of me” (Matthew 11:29). He wanted his disciples to learn about him, and also to learn from him. He was their teacher and their example.

The yoke that Jesus referred to consisted of a crosspiece with two box-shaped pieces that joined two oxen together so that they could unite their strength to pull a load together. Jesus wants us to yoke up with him so that we can learn about him with him as our teacher.

John 5:39 tells us: “Search the Scriptures.” It is the Scriptures that “testify” of Jesus.

“Study,” Paul told Timothy, so that he could” rightly divide the word of truth” (Second Timothy 2:15). To study is to be a diligent student of the Bible, “a workman that needs not to be ashamed” of his knowledge of the Bible.