Being a teacher

I love teaching. I love being a teacher. I feel this is one of the gifts God has given me. In fact I have to be careful not to rely on the gift and instead rely on God to help me be the best teacher I can. Well, I have been gone for my students for about 4 weeks. I miss them and want my first lesson back to be a good one. So I opened my curriculum and found the lesson that was supposed to be taught last week. But for some reason it was not. As I started to study for it, I felt like a 2 by 4 hit me across the face. This lesson is not for my students. I know some of them could use it, but I need it as much or more than they do. The lesson is on making sure your speech builds people up. Ephesians 4:29 haunts me. Like I said I love being a teacher. This is why. I know I need my life to be more conformed to the image of Jesus. My heart needs to change; if my heart is changed my speech will be changed. I can be embarrassed by what comes out of my heart. I am just glad that God chooses to use sinners to do his work.