Of Enoch, the father of the sixth generation after Adam, it is written that he “… walked with God (Gen 5:24) to which the Amplified Bible adds “in habitual fellowship,”. This means that he exercised his walking with God so intensely that it became a never ceasing habit; a lifestyle. So intense was his fellowship with his Creator that He directed his footsteps to step from this world right into the world of glory without passing through the gate of death.
As we all know, there is a vast difference between walking with God and mere religiosity. The Bible teaches right from the first chapter of Genesis that nothing will satisfy God but a close, close fellowship with every human being; a daily, habitual walk, a lifestyle of continual oneness with Him. In the New Testament, this truth is vividly depicted in James 1:22-25:
But become doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if anyone is a hearer of the Word and not a doer, he is like a man studying his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he studied himself and went his way, and immediately he forgot what he was like. 25 But whoever looks into the perfect Law of liberty and continues in it, he is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one shall be blessed in his doing.
This is what we try to establish in the lives of our students. This is true discipleship. Our Lord Jesus, the Master Disciple Maker, made disciples, first of all, by the example He put to them. He revealed the Father to them by His conduct. They heard and saw how He responded as a human being under the normal pressures of life. He also walked amongst men as the greatest Leader that ever lived.
“He who has seen me, has seen my Father.” (Joh 14:9).
To grow and become like Jesus, a student does not only need teaching, but also encouragement and correction; in short, mentoring. Class teachers are therefor also to visit their students at home to get to know them more intimately. It is mostly there, at their homes, where the depth of their Christian characters are sorely tested.
A class teacher may do very well in teaching the Word, but fall short when it comes to assisting students in their deeper spiritual needs. This is where the more experienced Hub superintendent will come to the rescue and assist him or her.
PLEASE PRAY FOR US
Please pray both for our Hub superintendants and class teachers; pray that they may model the Lord Jesus in their behaviour and have the wisdom in forming the lives of those entrusted to them. Pray that they may neither be to lenient nor expecting more of a student than what is reasonable at that stage of his or development as a disciple of Christ.
Bless you.
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