Digging Deeper

 He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs you are doing if God were not with  him.”          John 3:2

 Jesus is the Teacher.  He is the Word of God and the word of God. 

 Just think if we sent our kids to school where there were no teachers.  They would go into each classroom with a book on each desk and no one to show them how to read them, how to learn from them.

It might be interesting to see the lessons they come up with, left on their own with the subject matter.

 I did get to witness something similar this month.  My daughter, Faith, is a sophomore at Brookville High School.  She also takes college courses at Sinclair through a program called PSEO.  She had the opportunity to take a “mini term” class online.  This class would run from December 1 through December 12, and would count as a full quarter of history.  She jumped at the chance, and I think she had no idea how tough those twelve days were going to be.  She was required to read three chapters per night, answer a discussion question online each night, write 3 essays total, and take 3 tests total.  That’s not too bad when there are 10 weeks to complete the work.  She would go to her room with every intention of reading her chapters every day.  Every day I would check on her to see how it was going, and invariably I would find her asleep in the book.  Literally, I found her with her face on the pages, apparently learning through osmosis, snoozing away.  We decided that for her next history class, she would sign up for a class on campus with a teacher.

 Faith with her history book makes me think of the Pharisees with their scrolls.  They had no teacher.  How easy it must have been for the scriptures to be twisted into something that only faintly resembled the true meaning.  They had become so attached to their man-made rituals that when the Teacher, the Word came to this earth, they were offended by his very presence.

 ”You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me,” John 5:39

 Father forgive me when I put my own twist on Your words, to make my own will seem right.  Thank You for Your eternal presence and guidance as I study Your words and live by them.

 Read: John 5: 31-47

by: Jeanne Roberts