Genesis 22:1-24; Job 25:1-26:14; Matthew 12:1-21
That I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. Isaiah 50:4 NKJV
The goal of the Holy Spirit’s ministry of sanctification is to conform us to the image of God’s Son (Rom. 8:29). But James warns us that our tongues are a particular challenge and an unruly evil, full of deadly poison (3:8). The Lord Jesus reminds us that “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matt. 12:34). May we imitate His example by responding to the Father as He awakens us “morning by morning…to hear as the learned” (Isa. 50:4), that we might speak words of grace and comfort to the weary. God grant that we may not be rebellious or turn away from His Word (v 5). —David Wilson
Open my ears, illumine me, Spirit divine! —Clara H. Scott