TEACH ME

Today's reading: Psalm 143-145

"Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing." Psalm 143:10 NLT

When you really, really and truly, want to learn, you will endure some hardships in the process.

In a teaching setting you will experience...

-Time in the classroom. It might look like a dry season. It might resemble a season of experiences that want to distract you and take your mind off the task. It might even look like failure to the extent you will want to give up.

-Homework. What you learn from the Lord will need to be applied at home. In your relations with those nearest to you. In your circle of friends. Your workplace. Your local WalMart. 

-Quizzes. You will find throughout your day that the Lord allows small inconveniences to stretch what you are learning and desiring to grasp. To stretch you. To allow you the opportunity to 'learn on the fly'. 

-Tests/Exams. These assignments from God will allow you, and others, to see just how far you've come in the learning process. They might highlight areas where you are excelling--and areas where a whole lot more work in needed. These ordained moments can be expected but never entirely prepared for, life is like that. But know this: He will not test you on something He hasn't already poured in to you!

-Graduation. Your schooling ends in heaven. Not before. Not a moment before. All you have learned, all you have chosen to lean in to, all you have hoped to gain, will be rewarded when you hear your Savior say, 'Enter in, my faithful servant!'

Won't you sign up for God's schooling? You need what He will teach you. Those around you need what you will learn. The world needs us to be more educated in His ways and His love.

He is willing. He is not only our Good Shepherd, but He excels at teaching His children His ways!