James 3:1 Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
In my last post, I said that deception starts in the mind. Deception is believing something that is errant to the Word of God. When the devil tempted Jesus, he used scripture. When the serpent led Eve into deception, he twisted – just ever so slightly – the word spoken by God.
No wonder James warns those who teach! How important it is to teach absolute truth that is 100% in line with what the Word teaches, else those being taught could believe something not exactly lined up with Scripture and the teacher could lead them in to deception.
Dad, I pray that anything I ever teach anyone, my kids, others around me, whomever you put in my sphere of influence – my prayer is that my teaching is based soley on Your Word, Your thoughts and none of my own.
Are you called to be “teacher?” How does that look?
It makes me uneasy even to answer this question, so it must mean I am called to teach, otherwise I would easily have said “Nope… I’m not called to teach.”
In some aspect, all of us, who are or will be parents, are all called to teach our children and this warning comes along with the territory. What more fertile ground than our children’s minds? Scary.
Outside of my children, is yet to be determined how, when, to whom, to what degree, and in what forum. For now, I just have to follow Him daily and be prepared for when the opportunity arises, in whatever forum He deems.
Well I agree with that, but there is a specific gift of teaching that not everyone has. If we are parents we are to train and teach our kids, but do you have that special gifting of teaching, you do know that.
Yes, I believe God has given me the gift of teaching.