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My Teacher
This past
Thursday morning I was observing one of our student teachers practice
teaching in a local 3rd grade. I was sitting in the back of the
room and noticed one little guy giving me the eye. Finally he got up from his desk,
came back and asked, “Who are you?” Giving him a big smile I said,
“I’m your teacher’s teacher.” Nodding at me he went back to his
work. Maybe five minutes
had past and he was back again.
This time he said, “If my teacher has a teacher, do you have a
teacher?”
“Yeah,” I said, “I do.” I was wondering if he would be
back later to ask, “Does your teacher have a teacher?” But he never did.
Yes, I do
have a teacher, lots of them.
My wife teaches me lots of things. My students teach me patience
and longsuffering.
However, my best teacher is Paul. In his writing there is a
treasure trove of ideas about Jesus. I continue to marvel at the
close of Ephesians 1 where Paul extols the glory of Jesus and how exalted
Jesus is. Then comes the
following in chapter 2, “God, who is rich in mercy, because of His
great love with which He loved us, 5even when
we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace
you have been saved), 6and raised us
up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus, 7that in the ages to come He
might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus.”
If that
doesn’t light your fire I am sorry to tell you the bad news. You are mentally dead!
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