I Want to Teach Little Teachers for Him

I guess I never imagined being anything other than a teacher...

Sure, there was a time, when I was 6, that I was certain that I was going to be a country music singer like the Judds and go on tours and be the best thing that ever was. Life has a way of changing things. Just like when I was asked in my senior year of high school to choose a job to shadow, and I was set on News and Broadcasting. But when it came to setting up our appointments, there were none left for me. I had to call my fourth grade teacher, Miss Melanie Morris, and ask if I could shadow her for a week, she was thrilled. I wasn't exactly...

However, throughout the week of being with her in that classroom setting things changed and my eyes opened to a bright new opportunity. It would be one of the last times I saw Miss Morris doing the thing she and I loved most before she passed away of cancer some few years later before I graduated with an Elementary Education degree, but it was then that the Lord began shaping my heart and the gift He had given me into something bigger than even I understood...

Today, things continue to change. In a classroom of 17 children, I crave something different. Something bigger. In a classroom where you are forced to teach from a set of 6 manuals and read the blue lines and NEVER share a word of Christ, my heart is LONGING for a classroom where I can teach what truly matters in this world. What this world is truly missing... the love and salvation of our Lord and SAVIOR Jesus Christ. Sure, it's important for kids to read and multiply, but Jesus taught kids those reading by and with parables and multiplication through the multiplying of His Father's kingdom. How little of that we are doing as Christians sitting back behind desks and telling others NOTHING of importance!

My heart is longing to grow up children, not just children, but men and women who FEAR God and who look after His principles and teachings. I do none of that in our school system today other than by a smile. Yes, that is good and fair, but how much more I get accomplished for my Lord when I am able to teach for 45 minutes on Sunday mornings in Sunday School to my two students of the WORD! My heart rejoices every single time I leave because I can advance HIS KINGDOM and glorify HIS NAME in those children! That's the kind of teacher I long to be. The kind that is an example that reading, writing, and arithmetic are important if all learning is based on my Savior and I give thanks to HIM for all I am able to learn and accomplish.