Teach Yourself When Teaching Others

Scripture:  If you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, and instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? Romans 2: 19.

I have a friend who researched and wrote a great curriculum for youth and presented it in six lessons. One time he felt they were not understanding the material but they were having a great time with the activities he added to the classes. The children even followed him out wanting more teaching from him. Lori Snyder had a great understanding of what was happening to him as she wrote in an old devotion:

The children just want to love and be loved...and to do lots of things with glitter. I think, after reviewing these instructions, that I'll be spending less time worrying about how to teach them about Hezekiah, and just keep showing them through words and actions the love that God has for them in their daily lives. In fact, maybe less worry and more glue and glitter would be a good idea in other areas of my life?

Prayer: Dear Lord in heaven, help us to teach love in all that we do and remember it is the greatest commandment. Let us know that in giving of our time we have given the greatest we can give. Teach us to grow with every lesson we teach. Amen.

Sandra Hilsabeck