March 16

“The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught.” Isaiah 50:4

These words are written prophetically about the Lord Jesus. They can be rendered, “the tongue of a disciple”; one, that is, who has disciplined himself to learn. The secret of spiritual advance is openness to be taught by God. We must throw heart and mind and spirit wide open to him, preserving always a way for divine impressions to reach us. When in our youth we first engaged in Christian work, we fancied we knew all there was to be known, and were so set in our ideas that friends found it almost impossible to get anything different across to us.

Unteachableness is a barrier to progress. If a person cannot learn, what possibility has he of advance? Oh, may God deliver us from our reluctance to accept instruction! To receive through whatever means, humbly and without hesitation, whatever he desires to teach us is to prosper in the school of Christ.