​58. The Hands That Made My Heart

The Jewish teachers are amazed at Jesus.

Here is a man who has no formal education and yet speaks of God as if he knows Him.

Bingo.

We’ve lived so many lifetimes telling ourselves such vile untruths, like we’re not smart enough to read the Bible. Like man’s unfounded doctrine is greater than God’s word.

But Jesus never doubted the relationship He had with the Father. He never studied Scriptures as if He were trying to pass a test.

That’s because He carried them in the heart God gave Him.

I’m not knocking study. I’m a card-carrying nerd after all, and I have the glasses to prove it. But I think there’s something very different between “have to” and “want to.”

I study because I want to know all I can about the God of the universe.

I want to know the hands that made my heart too.