“LEARN OF ME.”
BY ABBIE MILLS.
Many desire
wisdom, and seek it with assiduity. They listen to teachers of science with
great attention, but when the Spirit calls them to learn of Jesus, they turn
away, and often think themselves too wise already to learn of One so meek and
lowly.
How full of
blindness and unrest, the human heart is, in its natural state. Sin warps all
the reasoning powers, and there is no rest found. The unbelieving heart is well
likened to the waves of the sea casting up mire and dirt. That there is no
peace to the wicked, the lives of the unsaved all around us prove. When these
weary, heavy-laden ones, begin to come to Jesus, the lessons given are not at
first pleasant, for He shows them their own vileness and their need of a
Saviour. But when HE reveals Himself as the one, ready to bind up their broken
hearts, how sweet is the peace He gives.
Yet how much
there is for the young disciple to learn. However clear the knowledge given of
pardoned sin, it is soon discovered that there are roots of bitterness that
have not been reached, and further examination and Spirit-teaching shows that
these are not to be dealt with by an act of pardon, but must be cast out,
destroyed, so that the soul may be clean, pure, holy in God’s sight.
Happy are they
who are ready to learn what the Saviour waits to reveal of His power to cleanse
from all sin, and to keep the heart free from all that is not in harmony with
the will of God. Now there is indeed rest of soul, and peace abounds. But those
diligent to know the ways of the Lord, are ever looking away from blessing
already given to the source of all blessing, waiting to know “what glad lessons
yet they shall be daily taught.” And the Teacher does not leave them idle, for
He has still “many things to say” to each disciple, when He has made us ready
to receive His words. For the wise in heart there is a continual girding of the
loins of the mind; a readiness to press on to that which lies before. Between the
great epochs of conversion, entire sanctification and eternal glory, how many
wondrous lessons are learned by those who have ears to hear and hearts to
understand!
Lessons
concerning all things that pertain to a life of godliness. There will be
teaching concerning the soul and the mind and body as well. Christians should
be the ones to find more excellent way in all they undertake, and they may soon
learn that this way is often of the ways the least complicated. Their Teacher
is “meek and lowly in heart.” Simplicity accords well with great skill and
great wisdom. It is the spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience
that leads into tangled paths, that many mistake for the depths of science,
more because of the unknown found therein than are known.
Christ is the
light of the world, and His disciples should be the most enlightened, not only
in things spiritually discerned, but also in all that makes life here more
happy and noble. Though our Teacher is meek and lowly, and the lessons are
imbued with this spirit, still they are not groveling, and the real learner
soon forgets to sing,
“Look how we grovel here below!”
But faith wings
the prayer,
“Superior sense may I display
By shunning every evil way,
And walking in the good.”
