Sometimes when we think about Jesus and everything that he did, it’s easy for us to assume that he was just kind of knew everything because he’s God.
Read John 15:12-15 and journal your thoughts
When we read the Scriptures, most of us are at a disadvantage because we are almost 2000 years after it is written and we are reading it in a different language. The problem is that so much ends up being lost in translation and we end up missing so much of what is really being said. For example in verse 15, most of our Bibles read “for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you” which is an okay translation, but it still misses the point. Let’s focus in on the word “heard” in the original Greek this does not really mean “heard”, but “studied diligently”.
How does this change our view of Jesus? We hear these ideas that Jesus being a rabbi would have memorized the entire Old Testament, but most of the time we say to ourselves ‘but he’s God so of course he knows it’. When we do this, we completely downplay the example Jesus is for us. Jesus probably would have spent thousands of hours not only memorizing the Old Testament (Tanakh) but studying it. These rabbis were consumed with the study of God’s Word; it was the driving passion in their lives.
Today may you discover a passion for studying God’s Word, just like Jesus did.
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