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Becoming an apprentice

Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.  ... Psalm 22.4

David, priest/king, opens up to me one of the greatest way to learn. David sees himself as an apprentice to the Lord. In our post-modern world apprenticeship has a different experience. We speak of mentoring, but apprenticeship is so much more.  In the world of our forefathers a young person would learn a trade or business from a known master. A master craftsman with a far reaching reputation was the type of person a parent would seek out to apprentice a child full of promise.  Samuel had that type of apprenticeship with Eli. 

Before the industrial revolution apprenticeship was the primary way the secrets of the masters were passed down to succeeding generations.  An apprentice would be taken into the household and share in the life of the master as one of his own. His parents would trust the master. Kids as young as 12-14 years of age would be apprenticed. Living in the household of the master, working along side him, traveling with him to learn business principles and build business relationships.  The teaching process was experiencial and relational.  Two processes that are known to develop learning deeply into a person's life.

I love the idea of being the Lord's apprentice. His reputation is flawless. He is deeply relational. He has grace and patience to work with me. He is a person I can be "childlike" around and learn from a place of awe and humbleness.  His path is a path for me to walk on.  I value this relationship as I live out my life  in the post-modern world.
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