Inadequate At Best!

I have recently blogged about the new Bible Fellowship Group (BFG...Sunday School to most of us!) that Anita and I are part of. Our friend Ron Hewitt and I are teaching the class. Yesterday was one of those Sundays that I had the responsibility of teaching. The previous week, Ron had presented a lesson titled, "The Purpose of Christmas." I wanted to tie into that lesson and bring us to the Advent season, so I taught a lesson entitled, "Why Is Christmas Important?"

As I usually do, when preparing to teach, I intensively study the Scriptures and material I intend to teach from. After the class, as usual, I am left wondering if anything I said actually made a difference. You see, one of the things that frightens me to death when I teach is the thought that something I say will lead someone to a false understanding of my Father! One of the things that I suppose every teacher of God's Word must wrestle with is that in order to bring glory to His name, we must make sure we present His true character. In fact the word "glory" comes from a Greek word that means "to give a correct opinion of." In order to give glory to the Father, we must make sure we are truly and accurately presenting Him to a world that is lost and dieing. There is really nothing that I do in my life that is more important than that.

When I stop to think about it, I actually feel that it is a real blessing that I do feel inadequate. It reminds me that the responsibility for handling the Word of God rightly is truly a weighty one. I pray that He would always inspire my awe with His truth!