There are some repeated verses in Isaiah 28 that I will focus on today, about how we learn to understand God’s word. If you read my post regularly, you will notice that I’ve repeated the idea that you cannot simply learn everything about God all at once. It takes time, much like teaching a child: you give them small amounts of information their undeveloped brain can comprehend, then increase their training as they mature. If you’ve noticed, when you read your Bible for the first time, you learn the basic stories, which is great because you begin to see God through them. Next time you read through it, you start noticing patterns and seeing things you missed before. I’ve been studying my Bible for years, and I still learn new things every day. Will we ever learn all there is to know? I don’t believe so. I think we will always be in a state of learning. It is so intricately designed that even the most educated teacher will learn new things each day that they study.
The lesson for today is: don’t be discouraged if you don’t understand all there is to know about God and His word; we are all learning at different paces. It’s better to take it in small increments than to even think you can learn it all at once. Be realistic and learn it to retain in your memory. When the time is right, God will open your eyes to more of His truths, when He knows you can digest them.
Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that areweaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: Isaiah 28:9-10
The repeated verse:
But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken. Isaiah 28:13
