Summary: Have you ever realized that the lessons that we intend to impact kids or students or adults in our ministry sometimes are used by God to impact our own lives? Through our preparation, may we have a fresh and significant interaction with the Lord and his word. The greatest teacher starts out as the greatest learner. Assume the posture of the learner and grow in the knowledge of God.
Have you ever realized that the lessons that we intend to impact kids or students or adults in our ministry sometimes are used by God to impact our own lives? Isn’t it funny when the lessons that we are preparing are ministering directly to our own lives, in our own situation. This happened so many times in my own life, and probably in your life as well. God just doesn’t waste anything.
What we intend as good spiritual food for others, actually comes out as being quite healthy for us as well. My encouragement to you is to be the learner. Come with your heart prepared, not only as a teacher, but also as someone who could learn and be ministered to by the very lesson you’re intending for others. Allowing God to move in you, will allow you to be in the best position to be used by God for others. Understand that God is going to be most real to others when he has become the most real to you.
One of my favorite passages in the entire Bible is found in the book of Colossians. Paul the apostle instructs us to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that we can walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, pleasing Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Through our preparation, may we have a fresh and significant interaction with the Lord and his word. The greatest teacher starts out as the greatest learner. As we prepare, understand that we are all students. Assume the posture of the learner and grow in the knowledge of God.