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Discipleship Focus: Teacher
- Teacher: One who holds forth the truth and is excited by it. The teacher looks for ways to explain, enlighten, and apply truth. A teacher's authority doesn't come from how smart they are but from the Word of God and the power of a transformed life.
Psalm 135
and Psalm 136 are largely teaching psalms.
If we look at their content, they are psalms which look back into
history in order to see the Lord’s hand at work. Both of these psalms talk about how God has
saved His people through the Exodus story.
Psalm 136 also talks about God’s hand at work in creation. These are psalms designed to teach us about
God and His work in the world.
However,
these psalms are not just designed for our education. If we hear about God’s hand and work and are
simply content with the information then we have done a great disservice to the
teacher – and more importantly to God!
The point of teaching other people about God is to give God praise. In fact, that is the point of our being
alive, period. We are here to bring
praise to God.
That is
why these psalms are great examples of the process of teaching. Clearly the psalmist is lifting up the work
of the Lord in the presence of his listeners.
These psalms do teach us about what God has done in the past so that we
can have hope for His hand to be at work in the future. But most importantly, these psalms teach us
about God so that we can lift up His name and glorify it.
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