Purposed Education

As a teacher in practice I spend a lot of time sitting in and standing in front of the classroom.

I remember coming home so many times frustrated because I could not imagine that Gods plan and purpose for schools and education was what I experienced that day. And I understand that math, reading and writing, nature and all these things matter, but spending hours and hours practicing on them to get high scores?

Because no matter how much we learn, how much wisdom and knowledge we get in life, it just misses its purpose if not placed on the right foundation which is Jesus Christ only: 1 Corinthians 3:11For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ."Because we can gain all, but if it stays without an eternal goal all will just wither away in the wind. The wisest man that lived faced this reality every day, writing down the words: Preacher 1:1 meaningless meaningless, everything is meaningless..  And what when the storms come and all this knowledge fails because it cant shoot roots, has no fast ground to stand on. Jesus was very clear about this when He spoke this comparison:

Matthew 7:24-27 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock: ²⁵ and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock. ²⁶ “But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: ²⁷ and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

So we teach and teach, fill the children with knowledge and insight and then sent them into a world that is meaningless without the knowledge of the One who created it. Because by him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by him and FOR  him.

And: The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

And then we wonder why generations seem to scatter and fall in all kinds of meaningless practices and are lost in a feeling of hopelessness and despair.

But what if schools would lay the foundation in Jesus? What if their first mission was to bring the children to the one who gives meaning to life? What if we would give all effort to make the roots holy so that the branches will be holy to? What a generation we would raise! And what a holy and purposeful work would they be able to do!

I had a dream two night ago. I was on a school as a teacher, not sure whether or not inside a classroom. I was not the one teaching the children, but a other older and more experienced teacher was. I saw him walking among the children, laying hands on them and prophesying over their lives. As he laid hands on a child next to me I heard him clearly say: ‘and you shall be a carrier of windows'. After that he also laid hands on me as another teacher, blessing and prophesying over me.

I don’t know whether or not is was a purposed dream, but it was so beautiful and it awakened my heart even more with the hope of seeing the day that schools find their meaning and purpose that God gave them.

I just had a thought as I read Ephesians 4: 11-16. Imagine a school on wich the fivefold minestry has some kind of place to equip the children for the edifying of the body of Christ. Leading them into their part of ministry according to that what Jesus has made them for. To grow into the body until they all come to the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. That they will not stay as children being tossed and carried about with every wind of doctrine because of a lack of foundation in truth, but that they will speak the truth in love. That they will grow up in all thing into Him who is the head of the body, Christ. So that they will supply the body according to the effective work that He gives them, causing growth to the body for the edifying of itself in love.

And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, ¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.