WORSHIP
October 6, 2020
Prayer: We praise You this day as you are worthy to be worshipped.
Scripture: ..they bowed down and worshipped Him. Matthew 2:11 NIV
Today I worship God in His classroom. Worshipping, staying in communication with God, is necessary in my professional life perhaps even more than in my personal life. It is at school where I face some of the greatest challenges and the greatest godlessness in others. I cannot separate my life into secular and sacred compartments as if they were different class periods. All of my life is sacred and needs to be under God’s’ authority. My relationship with the Lord is not something I can tuck and hide away like a jack-in-the-box eight to ten hours a day while I’m at work and then turn a crank and pop Him up when I get home or on Sundays. God and I both want our love relationship to last twenty-four hours a day. If our love is expressed any less than this then we are both unfulfilled.
As I worship in the classroom, I affirm that God is in control of ALL things which includes me, parents, students, staff members, administrators, school board members, and state officials. I affirm the classroom where I serve is not “my” classroom. It is “His” classroom. I affirm that I am in God’s presence each and every day, every hour, every minute and every second. God’s love and presence knows no boundaries. I cannot be where God is not.
For years I asked God to sit patiently outside the classroom in the hallway and wait until I finished my work. Now I daily keep the door open and invite Him in to take control and do His work. I patiently wait for Him to enter, knowing how long He waited outside the classroom for me. As He enters, I turn the class over to Him. The students and I are humbled and awed. We are blessed by His wisdom, power and creativity to free us to unselfishly give, love and learn in ways we have never seen, heard about or ever imagined.
Ask God what He wants you to do to begin or continue to maintain a close(r) relationship with Him at school.
Copyright Don Clark. Email [email protected]
Thank you, Don for this powerful reminder…especially in the busyness of teaching. Ues, may Jesus have His rightful place in our classrooms each day! Blessyou.
Thank you! This is exactly what I am striving for and exactly what I needed to hear:)
Wow, such a great metaphor of asking God into the classroom during the day- definitely gives me something to ponder and work towards!