“Molder of Dreams”

Today I want to speak to school teachers and Sunday school teachers or anyone else that teaches young people.  What is your purpose for teaching?  Have you ever sat down and really thought about why you became a teacher?  What is the purpose of a teacher anyway?

One of the purposes of a teacher is to share information with young people who don’t have the understanding you have about whatever subject you are teaching.  As you teach, you are imparting information you have learned to your students shaping and molding their minds and character helping them to expand their mental capacities.  As a teacher you have a great privilege, a great opportunity and responsibility to the young people you are teaching.  How seriously do you take your responsibility?  Maybe you never realized this before but you are “molders of dreams.”

It is not only what you teach that is important but also the way you teach and the example you set as you live your life.  Do you live what you teach by demonstrating it in your own life or do you live a double standard teaching one thing and doing another?  Young people are very impressionable; they will believe most of what a teacher teaches them.  

In the Word in James 3:1-2 it says, “Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we shall incur a stricter judgment.  For we all stumble in many ways.  If anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body as well.”  I am not sure all of what this means but I don’t think it is something that anyone should take lightly.  I don’t think these verses are talking to a school teacher that is not born-again but I think when many stand before the Lord someday they will be accountable for what they taught; one example is teaching evolution trying to persuade young people there is no God and the Word of God is a lie letting the evil one use them to deceive young impressionable minds that are seeking the truth.  In doing so they are encouraging young people to abandon their faith and live sinful lives.  

There are many young people who leave the church to go to college that have been inundated with lies and confusion and don’t return to the faith that they once claimed.  Jesus said to His disciples in Luke 17:1-2, “Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person to whom they come.  It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin.”  As far as I know this could apply to any young person, or a person young in the faith, so watch yourselves, your words can either be used for blessings or curses, life or death.  

Make sure you are living what you teach and that it is something that is true and beneficial in shaping and molding young minds and be sure to set an example that the young people can follow.  And remember you are a “molder of dreams.”  God bless you and have a great day!!