Teaching

There is an unintentional arrogance that each of us holds, in that we somehow believe God loves us and yet cares little for others. We, of course, credit ourselves for this, by our own actions, we did after all ‘ask Him into our lives’ and we are generally ‘good’ people. We ‘humbly’ recognised that God was patient with us, and how special we must be to have gained his Love and Attention. However, because God cherished us, we sense the responsibility to ‘care’ for others ‘less fortunate’ than ourselves; we feel we must teach them ‘our ways’ and as busy as God must be, we think He is reliant on us to guide them and show them His love like a spiritual ‘hand me down’, because these others are apparently not be worthy to have the direct intervention of the God Almighty.

In so doing we have become the people’s teacher or religious medium through which the wisdom of God can be shared with the masses. Also, we foolishly assumed that after a while, we had become the ‘finished article’ or as near as damn it, so much so that we could hardly taint the word of God.Yet here lies the problem we have introduced the leaven, the ‘thing’ that creates additional rules and regulations into the bread of life; we have corrupted the purity of Love with the intellectual pompousness that Man’s wisdom demands. We assume that our purpose is to save others and that God would somehow reward our endeavours with some spiritual merit. In reality, we cannot even save ourselves, so how can we ever hope to instruct others; indeed, we must sacrifice our ‘self’ for this change to occur.

But what about being the light to guide others, I hear you cry. God would have us reveal His Love though our kindness, humility and tolerance of others, not through so-called ‘words of wisdom’ or through our ‘vast’ knowledge. Yes, we will become that beacon on a hill, but it is a beacon that will guide others to God and not to the light itself; if others praise or idolise us, we have surely failed, indeed no recognition of our ‘role’ is needed or warranted, we have merely laid down ourselves as a rung in the spiritual ladder that others can step on us, to help them reach God.