Do you consider yourself to be a teacher? Have you taught your children? Do you teach others in your profession? What have you learned from your teachers, whether in school, on the job, or family? Do you look at Jesus as a teacher and desire to learn from Him?
We often think of teaching as a profession, and it is. Yet, it is not only a profession. Teaching is much bigger than a profession. The professional educator teaches one subject. They teach narrowly but deep. We need to learn a much wider array of knowledge.
Throughout our lifetimes, we will learn about science, logistics, technology, and a variety of job specialties; not to mention reading, writing, arithmetic, and everyday living sensibilities. We use all that we learn to grow and mature during our lives. Some of what we learn enables us to improve our job opportunities and financial stability.
There is one subject we should dive deeper than we often do—God. Far too many in this world don’t know God at all, even those in our neighborhoods. Others spend their Sunday morning in church listening to the sermon and singing they hymns, but don’t carry what they heard with them into the week. Only a few will spend time reading and studying on their own. They are the same ones who will attend the Bible studies.
Why is it important for us to dive deeper? We will experience situations in which our faith will be tested. The deeper our relationship with God, the better we can withstand those situations. Additionally, the more we know, the better we can teach someone else. Teaching others is the best way to make this world a better place.
I pray we all seek to learn more about God. I pray we dig deeper into understanding who God is. I pray each one of us will teach our children and others we know the gospel of Jesus Christ. Seek to know God. Learn more about him. Seek understanding. Teach your children. Teach others.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord God has given me
the tongue of a teacher,
that I may know how to sustain
the weary with a word.
Morning by morning he wakens—
wakens my ear
to listen as those who are taught.
Marty Pressey 