Finding One’s True Self
The audio clip above really moved my spirit today and inspired the following paragraphs. May the Lord move on your hearts from both messages and ultimately from the Word of the Lord. I pray my students will see and hear this message particularly.
The beginning of my 11th year in teaching has definitely been one that I am seeing a change in season in both my life and my professional career. One major theme recently that has seemingly burdened my spirit is salvation for the youth, especially those who are lost. There are countless “gospels” that are promulgated by society, sowing into the very fibers of our humanity that may very well be robbing us of that humanity. Western ideals that were foundational to modern western civilisation since Enlightenment have been redefined in an attempt to change mankind’s direction.
As an educator, I often witness different students being wrapped up in these societal pressures of acceptance and self gratification or even simply being misled due to their innocence. This current group of students this year, burdens my heart more so than some groups of students in the past. My heart goes out to them and I have been praying for them to come to a saving faith in the One Jesus Christ.
“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
Galatians 5:1 ESV
I see their desire to forge their own paths in life, to discover themselves in a differentiated way from the leader figures in their lives. This discovery of oneself is a major development process in the human experience, but please a word of caution. We can only find our humanity when we learn what God intended humanity to look like. We lose our humanity without Christ. Our humanity does not come from nature, but from God. Lives are changed, spheres are changed, realities are changed when we learn what it means to be human from the Bibles’ revelations.
“… If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?…”.
Luke 9:23-25 ESV
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