Donna and I are completing a 40
day prayer challenge based on Mark Batterson’s book The Prayer Circle. It has been a remarkable journey and a memorable
way to start a new year. On day 30, the title was Abide in Me.
Batterson describes the various
levels of education in Jewish culture to illustrate what it means to abide in
Christ. The final stage, if one is invited, was “bet midrash” or “house of
study.” A rabbi would select his disciples and invite them to “come, follow me.”
Sound familiar?
The disciples would follow the
rabbi in complete devotion, learning his philosophy and teachings: “The
complete devotion of discipleship is sometimes described as being ‘covered in
the dust of your rabbi’. It was an allusion to the fact that the disciples
followed their rabbi so closely that the dust the rabbi kicked up with his
heels would literally cover the disciples who followed him.”
What I took away from this
reading was: if I am going to accomplish God’s purposes and plans for my life,
I must abide in Him. In my journey
through the reading of scripture I must follow my Rabbi so closely that the
dust from the pages of His Word covers me.
That is my prayer for you this
week; may you be covered in the God’s dust as you follow Him in His Word.
Blessings, my human friends...
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