Listen up!

Deuteronomy 18:15^(A) "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen— 16just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb^(B) on the day of the assembly, when you said,^(C) 'Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God or see this great fire any more, lest I die.' 17And the LORD said to me,^(D) 'They are right in what they have spoken. 18^(E) I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers.^(F) And I will put my words in his mouth, and^(G) he shall speak to them all that I command him. (from Biblegateway.com)

Did you know that these verses are about Jesus Christ? From time to time it is important to remind ourselves that God did not bring Jesus on the scene as a last minute plan to fix a broken humanity. Before the creation of the world God knew man would fail and so he planned to bring Jesus on the scene at just the right time.

There are a couple of wonderful things to point out about this person, whom the Jews referred to as The Prophet.

1. He is "from your brothers". Jesus was a human being, with all of the things we human have to deal with. He can identify with you.

2. We should listen to him. When God revealed himself and his character to the people of Israel they said "no more!" We really have no clue just how incredible God is, and how holy, and how much we don't measure up. They just wanted to stop up their ears. With Jesus we need to open those ears and listen to how God will make a way for us to share in his glory by giving us his very life.

Consider how long God waited to bring Jesus on the scene in order to speak the words of love God longed to speak. He is speaking those words into your life today. Listen up!

Pastor Tom