Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
Do you remember the story about the leaders of the Pharisees sending "officers" to arrest Jesus? They listened to Him and then returned that evening without Him. They asked the officers, "Why have you not brought Him?" The men had to reply, having been awed by His words, "No man ever spoke like this Man!" (John 7:32, 45, 46).
How could Jesus have spoken such words, especially since He had not been properly educated in their schools? But Isaiah tells us the secret: In becoming one of us, Jesus took upon Himself our human nature. All He knew He had to learn from His Father, just as we have to learn. Isaiah lets us in on a little secret.
Speaking in behalf of Jesus, he records this brilliant insight into the private life of Jesus: "The Lord God [His Father] has given Me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He awakens me morning by morning, He awakens My ear to hear as the learned. ... And I was not rebellious, nor did I turn away" (50:4, 5).
Jesus says that He had no wisdom of His own: "My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me" (John 7:16). "I have many things to say ... which I heard from Him" (8:26). "I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things" (vs. 28).
And when did the Father "teach" Him? In those early morning sessions in prayer and study. And so will the same heavenly Father teach you what to say to someone today whom you will meet who is "weary," someone who needs a morsel of the bread of life, who needs to drink of the water of life.
--Robert J. Wieland
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: June 18, 2004.
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