Thursday, March 13, 2014
Thankful For Teachers
Those that teach have both a rewarding and a challenging profession. I think of the teachers in the public school systems like my daughter and think about how challenging it is for them to help their students. They have to work to move the minds of the youth, and sometimes they are the only positive influence in their lives. Once the student is our of their classroom, the student no longer has direct influence. As believers this is not true for us.
Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
27 For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There was a time when those that wanted to follow God had to look outwardly for all input and direction. WE had to look outwardly to the Law. But as Paul says here, we have now put on the Messiah and we no longer have to look outwardly to a school teacher. Jesus lives in our heart. In the New Covenant, we now have the Law within us.
Hebrews 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Jeremiah foretold of the day when the law would be written in our hearts and Paul quoted him in his letter to the Romans. Today we can take the influence of God, the Law, with us everywhere because when we asked for forgiveness and for our Messiah Jesus to be our Lord, God wrote the Law in our hearts. Today we can know everywhere we are how we are to walk. That does not mean we will always be right. If only it were so easy. It does mean that we always have access to knowing, and if we will cry out to God, He will help.
That is worthy of being thankful for, I believe.
Prayer
Father, we exalt and declare before the world that You alone are the Most High King. Please forgive us for the things we do wrong. Thank You for sending Your Son to die that we might live. We ask today that You give us Your healing, Your deliverance, and Your provision. In Jesus’ (Yeshua’s) name. Amen.