What
Are The Characteristics of God's Teachers?
Joy
Joy is the
inevitable result of gentleness.
Gentleness
means that fear is now impossible, and what could come
to interfere with joy?
The open hands
of gentleness are always filled.
The gentle
have no pain. They cannot suffer.
Why would
they not be joyous?
They are sure
they are beloved and must be safe.
Joy goes with
gentleness as surely as grief attends attack.
God's teachers
trust in Him. And they are sure His Teacher goes before them,
making sure no harm can come to them.
They hold His
gifts and follow in His way, because God's Voice directs them
in all things.
Joy is their
song of thanks.
And Christ
looks down on them in thanks as well. His need of them is just
as great as theirs of Him.
How joyous
it is to share the purpose of salvation! |