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Daily Devotionals
Voice of the Lord
Present yourself to God as someone worthy of his approval (2 Timothy 2:15).
No believer is called to ignorance. Every believer is called to study. If we are ignorant, for example, about answers to rabbinic objections regarding Messianic prophecy, then we are responsible to take the time to dig for those answers. The answers are there, but it's up to us to study and find them. Then we need never be ashamed.
Centuries ago, there was a rabbi who traveled from town to town with his nahag (horse boy). The nahag observed as the rabbi answered questions in each village. He thought to himself, "That's an easy job. I can do that." When he mentioned this to the rabbi, his wise master said, "Tomorrow we are traveling to a new town. You'll be the rabbi and I'll be the nahag." This pleased the nahag. The next day, the rabbi watered the horses, and the nahag sat in the cart. As soon as they arrived in the town, a man ran up to the cart and asked the rabbi (really the nahag) the most difficult question he had ever heard. The nahag thought for a long time. Finally, he began to laugh. "That question is so easy, it's not worthy to be answered by a rabbi; I'm going to let my nahag answer it!"
Unfortunately, we don't have a rabbi standing by the horse.We'd better study!
...choose a portion of the Scriptures about which I am ignorant, and I will study it until I am no longer ignorant.
MW
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