FAITH CAPSULE: Today, hear to learn and fear God for your life.

Proverbs 13

Limitation of man’s relationship with God is the evidence of man’s limitation of learning from the word of God. Obviously, the purpose of the written word of God is for man to learn. Romans 15:4 warned, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
What is it to learn in the word of God?
Learning the word of God is to gain understanding and knowledge for instruction and experience not to become a victim of wicked world. However, man is too busy and mindful of the world instead of learning in the word of God. Man, with no or limited learning gives way for repeating mistakes to become victim of evil agenda. For example, in the book of Judges, Israelites were distanced from God by giving to repeated sins. Consequence of pain of their sin was prompting repentance for forgiveness. Without their learning for understanding and knowledge, returning back to sin was Israelites pattern of life before God. Today, man have taken the pattern of not learning to avoid distance from God but living in repeated sin before God.
Word of God wants us to learn from Christ as stated, “But you have not so learned Christ.” Word of Ephesians 4:17-24, is written for our leaning:
^“ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,  having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;  who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:  that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,  and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”
Hearing and hearing (not hearing every once in a while) is the way of listening. With listening, learning is established in man’s life. It is in hearing that man will gain and learn to fear God all the days of life. Deuteronomy 4:10 speaks to all then and now, “…Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’”
Today, not hearing God’s word is not learning to fear God. Parents are too busy to learn from the word of God and not available to teach children. Government also aids parents by taking out word of God from school to teach children for the fear of God. Parents and Government in collusion to despise the word of God destroying the world. (Proverbs 13:13)

Prayer for today: Ask for the grace of learning in the word of God.