Questions...
We all have them.
Answers...
We think we have them all.
This is for the educator who is currently perplexed, disgruntled, or overwhelmed. This is also for the educator who is experiencing an eye opening year of understanding their calling to Kingdom teaching. God still has great and unsearchable things to tell you regardless of how you view your situation.
"Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know".
Jeremiah 33:3
It's no mystery to God's children that we are to commune with Him through prayer and times of meditation. But here in Jeremiah 33: 3, God specifically gives a request for His people to call to Him, to summon His glory, to invite His presence, and cry aloud in expectancy that He will answer. "Call to Me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know". 
The beauty and blessing of this is not just that He will answer us, but that God has promised to tell us great and unsearchable things that we do not know. Frankly, it's hard to image something an educator doesn't know! We have to know personalities, age appropriate behaviors, academic lingo, facts and new practices. We also have to know right from wrong (according to whomever is in administration), right from wrong (according to our foreknowledge of God), right from wrong (according to what is socially and politically correct) and we have to know what's current in the lives of our students. With all this stuff we generally already have compartmentalized in our brains, God still says that there is more out there to learn that only He can supply. 
I am so glad that God has an "unsearchable" knowledge. No matter of internet surfing or asking of a resident authority will provide me with the answers that will provide Kingdom insight and wisdom in my situation. Think about those times that you called to Him...
This is about those times when you felt like wringing your hands (or someone's neck) at the beginning of the school year because you didn't know how to deal with a certain kid or the workload. Maybe your call to Him were for times when you needed a loving word to give to a coworker, but you didn't know what to say. Recall the times when you have cried out to God for wisdom on how to make your paycheck stretch, strength to deal with your own children at home, and patience to wait for healing. Did He answer you?
The answers to the some of the tests of our lives are right in front of us and possible out of reach because of unbelief or disobedience in us. However, some of our test have unsearchable solutions for they aren't found with or founded from the mind of mankind and are "impossible to investigate, no matter how great the effort". The answers we seek can only be found in Jesus. They are hidden treasures in Jesus that can only be unearthed through a right relationship and intimacy with Him. If we could solve all of our own problems, then we wouldn't need a Savior, would we?
God's Holy Spirit in us leads us into prayers that seek the mind and heart of God as it pertains to how He wants our lives to affect those around us. It will be in and because of our times of worship that God will reveal to us things that no one else thought to utilize, words that can heal years of hurt in a student, ideas that can activate understanding in your students and strategies that can help us in our personal finances, health and family.
I hope that you have been encouraged to call on God before you begin this work week and know that He hears you even before you open your mouth. Be prepared to receive what He has promised
"It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. -Isaiah 65:24
The Lord is with you and you are loved,
Toni
Please enjoy this week's song
No comments:
Post a Comment