Continuing in John 6...I think about the crowd of Jews following this new Teacher Jesus.
They had been fed......miraculously.
People had been healed....miraculously.
I feel sure I would have been right where they were. Questioning. Drawing on my knowledge of scripture. I'm pretty sure I would not have recognized prophecy fulfilled in this carpenter from Nazareth.....no more than they did.
Why did so many not get it? Why did they not recognize Him for Who He was...immediately? They had so much knowledge of scripture, prophecy......
In John 6:45, Jesus quotes from Isaiah 54:13 and Jeremiah 31:31-34, telling the critical Jews who questioned His teaching that "...all will be taught by God.." (John 6:45)
To teach it to communicate to another the knowledge of that of which he was before ignorant. (Webster's definition)
I am struck this morning with that phrase, "taught by God".
I can learn lots of information. I can replace any area of ignorance with facts and data. I can scrutinize and analyze....
But in matters of God and His Word, what He has said, what He IS saying, what He is doing....I do well to not teach myself. I may accumulate some knowledge, but that knowledge will be useless unless it is brought to Life by The Holy Spirit of God.
I purpose today to be taught by God.
