If you are born again, there are two schools you must enroll in to enhance your journey to the Kingdom and make your walk with God meaningful here on earth. I will be discussing these two schools.
None of these schools is more important than the other. You cannot enroll in one and neglect the second. If you do, you will not have a balanced Christian life.
The textbook used in both schools is the Bible — not another book, but the Bible alone. We discussed the power in wrapping yourself in the word, which you can read up.
Let’s now talk about the schools.
1. The School of Men
The School of Men is where God uses people to teach you the things of the Kingdom. One of the main places you encounter this school is in a Bible-believing church. When you attend church regularly, you are a student in this school. This school teaches how to understand your kingdom right and walk out of fear.
God uses men to teach you about Himself. Sometimes they share their life experiences, and those experiences help you in ways you may not even realize at the time.
There are people who think going to a Bible-believing church is not important because they already have a Bible. But we all had textbooks in school, yet we still needed teachers. Having a textbook did not cancel the need for instruction.
You need to be part of a Bible-believing church to learn things about God that you may never discover on your own. It is in the church that you are discipled and trained to become all God wants you to be.
In a family, a father gives birth to a child, nurtures him, trains him, and raises him into adulthood. That grown child then does the same for his own children. This is God’s design for lasting growth and continuity.
The same principle applies in the church. God wants you to be submitted to authority, trained under that authority, and then released to train others.
If you do not attend a Bible-believing church and submit to godly authority, you will struggle to become all that God intends for you to be.When you decide to enrol in these schools, you have decided to take responsibility for your personal growth.
There are also people who attend church but are never truly submitted to any authority for proper training. If you are such a person, please make a change today. Submit to the processes in your church. That is how you become a useful vessel in God’s hands.
God can also use men to write books that positively impact your Christian life. That, too, is part of the School of Men.
2. The School of the Holy Spirit
This second school is extremely important if we truly desire to make it to heaven.
If you consider the amount of time we spend in church each week, it is very small compared to the time we spend on our own. Yet our training as Kingdom citizens should be continuous. Since we cannot be with our physical trainers 24 hours a day, we must submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit for daily training.
Sadly, many people are active in the first school but know very little about the second. They attend church faithfully but have not surrendered themselves to be trained by the Holy Spirit.
How do you know? Their private lives remain unchanged. The same weaknesses they had when they gave their lives to Christ are still there — sometimes even stronger. They are rarely corrected because they ignore the gentle warnings of the Holy Spirit.
Some do not even make time for the Bible, for reasons best known to them.
If you are truly a student of the School of the Holy Spirit, He will consistently teach you what needs to be corrected in your life. He will guide you into doing what is right. He will instruct you, warn you, and shape you daily.
If a person is not an active student in both schools, he will not have a balanced Christian life. And honestly, such imbalance is dangerous for anyone who hopes to reach heaven.
God bless you.
Here are some related posts that will bless your soul.
- Does God Still Speak Today? 5 Powerful Ways God Speaks to Us
- Wrap Yourself in the Word: The Power of a Life Regulated by God’s Word
- Do You Have Spiritual Anorexia? Signs You Lack Appetite for God’s Word.
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