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Some Of The Christian Teacher’s Needs
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Teachers must have a living faith or they will be separate from
Christ. The Saviour does not ask how much favor you have with
the world, how much praise you are receiving from human lips;
but He does ask you to live so that He can put His seal upon you.
Satan is seeking to cast his shadow across your pathway, that he may
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hinder the success of your work. You must have within you a power
from above, that in the name of Jesus of Nazareth you may resist
the power which is working from beneath. To have in the heart the
Spirit of Christ is of infinitely more consequence than the possession
of worldly recognition.
To the teacher is committed a great work—a work for which, in
his own strength, he is wholly insufficient. Yet if, realizing his own
weakness, he clings to Jesus, he will become strong in the strength
of the Mighty One. He must bring to his difficult task the patience,
forbearance, and gentleness of Christ. His heart must glow with the
same love that led the Lord of life and glory to die for a lost world.
Patience and perseverance will not fail of a reward. The best efforts
of the faithful teacher will sometimes prove unavailing, yet he will
see fruit for his labor. Noble characters and useful lives will richly
repay his toil and care.
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Human nature is worth working upon. It is to be elevated, refined,
sanctified, and fitted with the inward adorning. Through the grace
of God in Jesus Christ, which reveals salvation and immortality and
life, His heritage are to be educated, not in the minutia of etiquette,
the world’s fashions and forms, but in the science of godliness.
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