My Teacher

Good Morning!

Time to get up and get to school! Well, if you remember that "life" is a school. As a teacher, I like school! I LOVE back-to-school sales, and walking through isles of new notebooks, pencils, and crayons.

But there is one thing about being a teacher--we don't know everything! Sometimes our young students might "think" we know everything--but that is so far from the truth. In fact, the older I get, the less I feel like I know!

But I have a teacher, and THIS teacher truly does know everything. I can go to Him at all times, and He leads me and guides me in the way I should go.

I am still reading in the book of Isaiah this morning, and take a look at some of the verses I ran across:

"This is what the Lord says--your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord your God, who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go." Isaiah 48:17

And then I found this one, which I think is so neat because each morning I get up and listen to my Bible CDs at the same time as following along in my Bible. This helps keep my mind from wandering to other places as I read.

"He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught." Isaiah 50:4

See? God is my Teacher!

Other favorites from today's reading:

"Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you." Isaiah 46:4

"I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them." Isaiah 42:16

"But now, this is what the Lord says--he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine." Isaiah 43:1

You. Are. Mine.

Did you catch that? Can you imagine those words being thundered out from the God of the Universe?

"See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland." Isaiah 43:19

A way in the desert. Streams in the wasteland. A way where there was none.

"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me." Isaiah 49:15,16

Have I given you enough promises for this morning? God is my Teacher. He leads me where I cannot see. He creates a way where there was none. He cannot forget me. I am His.