The Classroom

In a classroom setting, there is an instructor and a student and each has different responsibilities.  The instructor’s responsibility is to teach the subject matter in such a way that the students will understand.  The student’s responsibility is to listen, learn, and receive this wisdom and instruction.   Psalms 32:8-9 is an example of this;  “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;  I will guide you with My eye. Do not be like the horse or like the mule, which have no understanding, which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, else they will not come near you.”

We are exhorted in 32:9 to not learn like the horse or mule because, in their ignorance, they lack understanding and fight and resist instruction, and have to be harnessed for the trainer to get near. 

What about you.  Are you teachable and going the way He guides you? Or do you resist and fight against His instruction? Proverbs 14:12 says: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”   We have a limited view but the God who is guiding us with His eye has an aerial view and can see things that we don’t.  He is omniscient, which means all-knowing. Wouldn’t we want to trust His wisdom and insight over ours?  Most would say yes, but do we really trust His wisdom when pressed in a hard situation? 

When we walk beside the Lord and listen to His instruction and teaching He orders our steps, and if we fall He is right there to catch us as a parent catches their child learning to walk.  Psalms 37:23-24 says “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand.”   

We have the best teacher in the universe and all we need to do is show up to class and listen and learn.