Faithful

"Faithful people know they are being trusted." My Perspectives reader gave me another experience of reading something again, as if for the first time.

I thought of how I acted in the past as a teacher if I didn't feel I was being trusted. My eyes would squint a little bit when I saw our curriculum coordinator. I focused on what he said the last time we met. It took more to make me smile or laugh. I started to laugh at more at sarcasm and I used it more readily myself.

I more easily forgot what God had entrusted to me with that great job.

"Faithful people know they are being trusted. Zeal to fulfill that trust distinguishes the faithful from those who are merely dutiful. The dutiful perform what is required, and so they are sometimes daunted in the face of sacrifice. The faithful remain dedicated to the One who entrusts them despite high cost. Sacrifice is a light thing for them because they have already entered some of the joy of their Master, who commends them for being not only good, but also faithful." This can be found on the cover page of Chapter 8 of Pioneers of the World Christian Movement.

I believe that teachers who are faithful to Him who has placed them, are pioneers in a movement right now in March 2009. The movement is in a battle to tumble the divide between sacred and secular in a Christian teacher's mind. For the joy set before them, they keep the Kingdom of God in mind and bring redemptive pictures to life in the faces of Maria, Dante', Micah, Jenny, Beth, Michael, and the list goes on and on and on.

We followers of Jesus in education get together to pull back the curtain on the Kingdom, to remind each other of who we are and who we're being called to be. One of those beautiful callings is to be faithful and be faithful in remembering that we are being trusted by our Heavenly Father.