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Scripture at a Jewish Synagogue
Israel
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will teach you. Are you teachable…open and willing to learn? School has
just started again and there are a variety of students out there. Those who are
eager to learn and those who only go to school because they have to. Do we sit
at Jesus feet—eager to learn or reluctantly sitting there because someone else
wants us to…go to church or Bible Study? In his teaching on That the World
May Know series Ray Vander Laan has described Jewish customs and
history in Jesus time. Both boys and girls at about age five began going to
elementary school, the Beth Safer, at the synagogue. They learned to read,
write and memorize large portions of scripture—like the whole first five books
of the Old Testament—the Torah. After that level of school was completed girls
no longer attended school and the boys went on to learn their family’s trade. Some
of the boys continued to study with the rabbi, learning the prophets and
studying interpretations of the Torah. Students who continued to study with the
rabbi, wanting to be like the rabbi—wanting to be a rabbi—would often leave
home and travel with the rabbi for extended periods of time. That is how it
should be for us…to want to be like Jesus—that we would spend time with Him…learning
scripture and applying it to our lives. Jesus is encouraging us in this passage
from John 14 to trust the Holy Spirit to teach
us all things and to bring God’s Word to our memory. What has He taught you
today?
Prayer
~ Holy Spirit—teach me and give me wisdom to understand more about Jesus that I
can become more like Him every day. Help me to be compassionate, loving,
understanding, forgiving, honorable, obedient, and even a good teacher. Bring
to my remembrance all of Jesus’ teachings that I can share them with others and
apply them to my life.
Daily
Bible Reading: Ezekiel 31-33
©
2017 Text and photos by Mickey M. Hunacek. All rights reserved.
All
scripture quoted from the New Living Translation (NLT) unless otherwise noted.
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