Simply No Better Tutor

“Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves.

Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test?”

II Corinthians 13:5

 

 

Remember your school days and the week of final exams?

There were several weeks of reviewing the course material leading up to exam week.

‘Cramming’ and ‘all-nighters’ were terms we became very familiar with.

Why did we put such effort into it?

We wanted good results.

Maybe we wanted to attend a particular college or university and needed to perform well on the exams in order to make it in.

We should take no less a serious approach to our faith walk.

Paul tells us to examine ourselves in order to insure we are in the faith.

He emphasizes the point by repeating “…test yourselves.”

If we would put forth such effort back in our school days how much more important is it to strengthen our faith walk through examining and testing ourselves.

How do we do this?

Well, the best first step we can take is to invite the teacher – the Holy Spirit of God to show us how.  

Some resourceful parents might decide to hire a tutor for their child to further enhance their preparedness for “exam week”.

There is no better tutor we can call upon than the Holy Spirit.

He will guide us into all truth.

He will reveal areas of our life that need to be strengthened.

Yield to His instruction, come under His tutelage.

There is no other way to pass the “faith test”!