My Teacher

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 long-suffering.   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, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that 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!

Written by Roger Bothwell on March 5, 2010

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