Schoolmasters

Today I wanted to share a dream the LORD gave me a while back. Be blessed as you read this, may the LORD open the eyes of your understanding.

I was on a school bus with a group of kids. These kids were elementary school age, probably no older than 7yrs old. On the bus there were two teachers at the front, one male and the other female. They were getting on to one of the children who was acting up.

They said things like this to the child, “Don’t you know God is watching. God does not like that.”

The boy responded indignantly, “Well, I don’t believe in God.”

I recognized that the kid was not sincere in what he said. He believed in God, but he was so broken with condemnation. He could not cope with doing wrong by God, and being held accountable for it.

The next thing I know these two teachers start going at him rather viciously. They began to berate him, “Oh, well you know what that means you’re going to hell! Unbelievers go to hell!”

As the two teachers scolded this kid I saw him sink in his seat. He was even more beat down, and condemned. He knew he was a sinner and not accepted in God’s eyes by the rules of these teachers. Now, when the teachers told him he was going to hell he was completely crushed by condemnation.

All the children on the bus began to look at me to do something, but I didn’t know what to do. I looked on in despair for this kid. Not knowing how to pull him out of this pit.

Then all of a sudden the children started to sing in unison, “Well every single day your grace reminds me that my best days are not behind me” (Matthew West’s Day One).

As they began to sing, this kid’s posture started to restore. I started to sing with them. As we sung over this boy, I watched as he went from condemnation to hope just by the gracious words we were singing over him.

When I awoke I was reminded about how the law is our schoolmaster bringing us to Christ (Gal. 3:24). The law was never meant to bring salvation. It was always meant to crush us into the dust. So that we may look up and receive the mercy and grace we so desperately need.

Be blessed brothers and sisters. God is for you. Come boldly before the throne of grace to obtain mercy in your time of need.

“Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us for this reason come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.”

Hebrews 4:14-16