Classroom for the Soul

“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” - Psalm 119:11

Do you remember being in your kindergarten or preschool classroom? Or maybe it was in your own home with Mom or Dad. But do you remember taking on the knowledge of what numbers, letters, shapes, and colors were? These are the foundation to how humans communicate and how they determine things. We use this knowledge to describe things to others and make decisions. We learned as small children that a stop sign is red, that it is an octagon, and it says the word stop. We didn’t argue that teaching then, and we surely don’t argue it now. We view the stop sign as being a stop sign by using our basic foundational knowledge we learned as children. Matthew 18:3-4 says, “And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” When we truly give our life to Christ, we must enter a classroom for our soul. We must open our hearts up to God’s word and Jesus’s teachings with full trust and willingness to learn. As teens and adults, we now have our ways that we think is the truth. But when you become a born-again Christian, you must start over in learning. Proverbs 3:5 reminds us to “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding”. To follow Christ down the narrow path back to the kingdom of heaven, we must enter the classroom as small children, with trust and eagerness to learn this new way Jesus is teaching us about in the Bible. His teachings seem foreign to this world we live in because it is! It’s from another place where there is no evil, pain, or suffering. His teachings come from a place of love. The only way to change this world is to follow teachings of love and remove all our knowledge taught to us from this world that has turned dark. If we had all also learned in our very first classroom that having zero fear and always being happy was a foundational truth just as a stop sign being a red octagon, we wouldn’t be having to start over now. But we can jump into this classroom for the souls to learn the truths of this creation we live in and teach it to the generations to come. We can turn this world right back to God just by accepting Jesus’s teaching as truths, and not suggestions, on how to love and live. If we all take the Word of God as the true way to live and put it deep in our hearts, sinning against God would be as wrong to us as a green-squared stop sign.