Learning To Be Taught of the Lord

Isaiah 42:16) And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.

I believe Paul was an example for us today of what the remnant of God will go through. He was different than the other 12 apostles who had walked in the flesh with the Lord. He was a "Pharisee among Pharisees", very steeped in his religion. Paul said he “profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.” (Galatians 1:14)

But when it pleased God to call him, he separated himself from all and “conferred not with flesh and blood” but went into the wilderness for three years to be taught of the Lord.

You can imagine what is was like for Paul, to find out that everything he had been taught about God, every thing he knew was now in question. On the road to Damascus he was confronted by the Lord himself and had to face the fact that he had been persecuting God’s people. Paul was blinded by the bright light of the Lord, he was instructed to go to a man that he would have persecuted earlier to have him pray that the scales would be removed from his eyes and his sight restored. Can we imagine what that was like for Paul?

Like Paul, we too have been born into a time when the majority of our religious system is as far from the truth as the Jews were in Paul’s time. We are in a time of “blindness” Isaiah 42:16 speaks of. There has never been a time like we are in today. We have types and shadows from the past, like Paul as an example, but today we are in the fulfillment of these things. God is birthing forth his man-child and there is much travailing in the process.

Many of us have realized the apostasy of the traditional Christian churches today and have come out from among them as the Lord commanded us to do in 2 Corinthians 6:17. At times God will lead us to others that are outside the church, various teachers and ministries to help us along with our walk with him. But, we should not think it strange if God doesn’t allow us to stay with a particular teacher or ministry for very long. If we are part of the true remnant of God, we will be taught of Him. He will not allow us look to any one person for our “spiritual food”, he will have no one between him and us.

Paul spent three years a lone in the wilderness to be taught of the Lord. We have to have our own wilderness experience so that God can burn out all of the religious thinking we have. Just when we think it is all gone, God shows us more that needs to go. It is as if we have to lay down EVERY thing and let God rebuild the truth in us.

God will use different people from time to time with this process but he will not let us get comfortable with that. He knows the minute we start looking to man we open ourselves up to deception. When I hear of someone getting discouraged because God is separating them from a teacher or ministry that God previously used in their walk with the Lord, they need to know, it is for their good. Be encouraged, God is looking out for us.

We are not in the time of the apostles or the time of our grandparents or even parents, we have never been this way before. God is requiring more from this last generation than ever before. We are in the last of the last days.

(Isaiah 42:16) And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.