I remember thinking many times in my classrooms, "They just aren't excited about learning. They have no passion to understand! If I could just engage them and set them on fire about learning! They don't seem teachable." I'm sure my lessons were somewhat adequate and interested some of them, but there were always those that I didn't seem to reach. I found it hard to create curiosity; to create a passion for learning. I'm pretty sure they had a passion for something...could have been video games but it surely wasn't school.
What about our lives? Do we feel passion for the right things? What does a passion for Christ do for us? Have you ever felt it? We could have an ever-increasing hunger to know Him more thereby showing His righteousness as we live our daily lives. We could recognize how He works through our suffering for our growth and our good. We could know all this or we could act like many of our students and feed our passions for something other than the the most important relationship we could have. As believers, we can model a passion for Christ even in our classrooms and pray that it is contagious; that someone who watches us could want what we have. We could try feeding our students' passions as we grow in ours. Christ is our hope, He is in us, and so we can be hope for someone else.
Be blessed by the Lord and highly favored this season.
Barb
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