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Teacher’s Need Of The Holy Spirit’s Aid
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Human Effort Essential
The agency of the Spirit of God does not remove from us the
necessity of exercising our faculties and talents, but teaches us how
to use every power to the glory of God. The human faculties, when
under the special direction of the grace of God, are capable of being
used to the best purpose on earth. Ignorance does not increase the
humility or spirituality of any professed follower of Christ. The
truths of the divine word can be best appreciated by an intellectual
Christian. Christ can be best glorified by those who serve Him
intelligently. The great object of education is to enable us to use the
power which God has given us in such a manner as to represent the
religion of the Bible and promote the glory of God.
We are indebted to Him who gave us existence, for the talents
that have been entrusted to us, and it is a duty we owe our Creator
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to cultivate and improve these talents. Education will discipline the
mind, develop its powers, and understandingly direct them, that we
may be useful in advancing the glory of God.
Everlasting life! Oh, if we can comprehend this in the lessons
that Christ gave! The questions that the disciples brought to the
Saviour after the crowds had dispersed and the teachings that He
then explained more fully to them are essential for the multitudes
today to understand and obey. Practical godliness must be learned.
Those who study and practice the teachings of Christ will gain an
essential education in Bible knowledge. By the standard of the
word of God every teacher will one day be measured by the greatest
Teacher this world ever knew. Belief in the grand truths He presented
will work a reformation in all who truly receive them.
The love of the truth as it is in Jesus means the love of all that is
comprised in the truth Christ taught. Let our teachers strive to follow
His example, to cherish His spirit of tender sympathy. Let none
leave the love of Christ out of their labors, but let each ask himself
the questions, Is my life a consistent life? Am I guided by the Holy
Spirit? It is the privilege of every teacher to reveal the power of
a pure, consistent, Christ-loving workman. The spiritual-minded
teacher will never have an uncertain religion. If he truly loves the
service of Christ, he will have spiritual discernment and spiritual
life.
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