A Two-Year-Old's Joy

At one of the meetings in which I preached a few years ago, a two-year-old’s joy at the prospect of going to Bible class made an impression on me. On Sunday morning, the first day of the meeting – just prior to the beginning of services – I heard a girl’s mother ask, “Amelia, are you ready to go to class?” The little girl immediately stopped what she was doing, diverted her attention to the doorway of her classroom, and joyfully skipped down the aisle to Bible class. Every adult in the auditorium couldn’t help but notice the response. THIS LITTLE GIRL WANTED TO GO TO BIBLE CLASS!

I have seen that same delight and anticipation for Bible classes in many other two and three year olds through the years, boys and girls excited about the prospect of singing and reading about God and eager to pray to Him.

I wonder… Do I have that same anticipatory feeling about the Bible classes I attend? And as I write this short piece, I further wonder, how could I not? A study of the Bible is involved. (What else, of course.) This Bible is God’s only means of directly communicating with me. How could that not be exciting?! Think about it: words from the very mind of an all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-caring God. Every time I study it I’m examining a part of the only book that contains “all things that pertain to life and godliness” (2 Peter 1:3). It is the only book that can make me “complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work” (2 Timothy 3:16-17).

Further, these Bible classes involve group studies! What a blissfully wonderful blessing, that I can meet with other spiritual family members to discuss with them my findings and theirs in the Scriptures, all under the direction of a capable teacher! (And that this is a privilege not regularly experienced by all brethren in this world ought to only increase my appreciation for these studies.)

“Behold, I long for Your precepts…“ -- “I opened my mouth and panted, for I longed for your commandments” (Psalm 119:40,131). Is this how I feel about it? If what I have described in these few paragraphs ever becomes ‘ho-hum’ to me, I need to get a hold of my spiritual senses.

Brethren have been meeting in different localities over the last twenty centuries to read and digest the epistles, gospels, and other books of the Bible (Colossians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 5:27). They are a great privilege, these opportunities afforded to me.

May I always have a heart that would joyfully skip to Bible class.


--Mike Noble