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CLARINET REEDS – 09-24-2021

By September 24, 2021Daily Devotionals

CLARINET REEDS
September 24, 2021

Prayer: Show us Your ways, O Lord, teach us Your paths; guide us in Your truth and teach us, for You are God our Savior. Amen

Scriptures: Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior. Ps. 25:4-5

Do not snatch the word of truth from my mouth, for I have put my hope in your laws. Ps. 119:43.

Beginning clarinetists break reeds! My students took so much time during lessons or at band period to come to my desk for new ones. Often they wouldn’t have the $.50 and would owe me the money until the next lesson. Sometimes, instead, they would go to a friend who had extra new reeds for a quick supply.

That’s where Nicole came in. She always thought ahead and came prepared with extra reeds. She could be counted on, and the other girls knew it. Consequently, her friends kept depleting her supply and she was tired of it! She had a plan. Nicole decided that the way to keep her new reeds for herself was to put each one in her mouth as soon as she bought it. That way none of the other girls would want her reeds!

I laughed at Nicole’s ingenuity, but was reminded that as Christian teachers we own some things that we need to hold tight to. We value truth, because Jesus is the Truth. As teachers we continually pursue knowledge, as we should. We spend several days a year taking in-service training, we go to summer and evening classes, and we obtain graduate degrees. We need to make it our business to learn so that we might teach more effectively.

God warns us in His word about gaining knowledge without Him, the One in whom all knowledge dwells. Let us gain all the credentials we need so that we will teach effectively and with excellence, but let us primarily be people of truth, and hold it dear.  May all the learning we gain be passed through the sieve of God’s truth.

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