Better Than Ezra?

Another cool thing hit me the other day as I was reading through Ezra, specifically 7:7-10, which tells us that Ezra and a group of exiles returned from Babylon to Jerusalem safely and in good time, "for the gracious hand of his God was upon him. For Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach the statutes and ordinances in Isreal." What a simple and profound summation of our responsibility as servants of God: we should set our hearts to studying the word, doing the word, and teaching the word. Study...do...teach. It's not easy to be better than Ezra. But I at least want to try to be like him.