The School of Life
It’s that time again! Believe it or not, we’re at the beginning of a brand new school year. But did you know that all of us, regardless of age, are enrolled in the “School of Life”? Today we’ll talk about what it means to learn and live with this reality in mind.
2 Timothy 3:14 NLT
14 But you must remain faithful to the things you have been taught. You know they are true, for you know you can trust those who taught you.
Six Realities in the “School of Life”
- There are Important Lessons to Learn.
1 Corinthians 10: 1-11 NLT
1 I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6 These things happened as a warning to us so that we would not crave evil things as they did, 7 or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.” 8 And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day.
9 Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites. 10 And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death. 11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age.
Psalm 119:130 NLT
130 The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand.
- We Will Make Mistakes.
1 John 1:9 NLT
9 But if we confess our sins to him, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness.
- Our Attendance is Essential.
Hebrews 10:25 NLT
25 And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of his return is drawing near.
- Our Grades are Something We Earn.
2 Corinthians 5:10 MSG
Sooner or later we’ll all have to face God, regardless of our conditions. We will appear before Christ and take what’s coming to us as a result of our actions, either good or bad.
- We Must Listen to Our Teacher.
Mark 1:22 NLT
22 The people were amazed at his teaching, for he taught with real authority—quite unlike the teachers of religious law.
- We have graduation to Look Forward to.
2 Corinthians 5: 6-8 NLT
6 So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. 7 For we live by believing and not by seeing. 8 Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.