“Though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience by the things which He suffered.” Hebrews 5:8
This is a difficult statement when you really start to think about it. We often read right past it. However it is one of those important scriptures that tell us something about what made Jesus’ ministry eternal.
Perfection is never valid until it has been proven. Faith is not faith without going through some thing that requires us to trust God. We can talk about BEING courageous, but without some fearsome circumstance we can not BE courageous. Likewise obedience is only good when you have the option not to obey. Jesus’ perfection had to be put to the test.
We need to be careful not to miss the point. Jesus didn’t “learn obedience” as if He wasn’t obedient and through the process of trial and error learned he had to obey or else. Had He disobeyed once it would have all been over? The point is what He learned THROUGH obedience.
It is when we step out in faith and obey that we learn some things about God and ourselves. In other words there are some things you cannot know until AFTER you have obeyed. That is the fearful part of the faith walk. Once again we can point to Abraham who, “by faith obeyed…and went out not knowing where he was going.”
One thing we learn through obedience is that God is faithful. Until we have experienced that for ourselves, it is only an unproven theory proposed by others.
Jesus’ relationship with the Father did not keep Him from having to take some steps in the dark; neither will ours keep us from learning in the same way.
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