Speaking A Word of Life to the Weary Around Me – Part 1 (Isaiah 50:4a)

The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. (Isaiah 50:4a)

Jesus is my role model for life. God gave me life in Christ to "conform me to the likeness of His Son (Rom. 8:29)." So, after noting how this verse describes Jesus, I look now at myself. I want to be like Jesus. I want to speak life, truth, and grace into the lives of others.

So, I look deep within . . . Do I have "the tongue of those who are taught?" Have I . . . do I have an eagerness to learn and grow so that I can speak as one who knows God? . . . knows God’s Word? . . . thinks God’s way? . . . has Godly wisdom?

I think once again of my profound need to delight in the Word of God. I pray that God will help me to see and really believe that His Word is life . . . it produces life . . . it leads to life . . . it nurtures life . . . it gives insight into how to live life to the fullest. There is no substitute for the Word of God. And there is no other way I can be equipped to minister life to others. If I don’t give them the Word of God then I give them nothing.

So, my life must be saturated with the Word of God. I need to read it, study it, meditate on it until it becomes a part of me . . . until I naturally think biblically . . . until my thoughts are God’s thoughts . . . until my words are spoken as God’s Word overflows from a deep well stored in the depths of my soul.

Until I have been taught, I can’t have the tongue of those who are taught. Until I have the tongue of those who have been taught which comes from being taught, I can’t "know how to sustain with a word" all the weary, broken down people around me.

My passion is to breathe life into those around me. I want to speak words of encouragement . . . words that bring life . . . words that ignite a passion for God and His glory. Don’t you? So, we had better be passionate about the Word of God. We must be determined to have minds, hearts, and lives saturated to overflowing with God’s Word.

Oh God, free me from the frailty and futility of my humanity. I know so keenly that my thoughts are not Your thoughts. My ways are not Your ways. But I desperately want them to be. Create in me a zeal for your Word . . . a passion to learn, to understand, to grow in thinking Your thoughts after you. Give me the tongue of those who have been taught so I can speak the word that will sustain the weary. For your glory now and forever, Amen.

Tomorrow: Speaking A Word of Life to the Weary Around Me – Part 2

Soli Deo Gloria