Remembering Graduates

Remembering Graduates

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From the moment we are born until the day we die, we are learning. This past weekend proud parents fill social media  celebrating the accomplishments of their graduates—and rightly so.

The junior high students anticipate high school. The high school students look forward to college. The college students step, with excited expectations, fully into the adult world. What these graduates don’t realize many lessons of life, not taught in school, wait for them.

The subjects taught in school aid our children in being prepared for becoming productive individuals in this world. Lessons preparing our children for living an abundant life, a life of success, belong first to the parents. We are to—

“Train up a child in the way he should go:

and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”

Proverbs 22: 6, KJV

Training implies faithful discipline and dedication in teaching our children the way to life. We all remain in this school until our final graduation day. Our heavenly Father has provided us with a Teacher, his Holy Spirit.

“But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,

whom the Father will send in my name,

he shall teach you all things,

and bring all things to your remembrance,

whatsoever I have said unto you.”

John 14: 26, KJV

Our life Teacher, the Holy Spirit teaches only truth pointing us always to the way of life. Jesus said—

“I am the way, the truth, and the life:

no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

John 14: 6, KJV

The Father has even given us his textbook filled with the words of Jesus, words pointing to Jesus, and words pointing to our graduation day.

On our graduation day, we won’t walk down an aisle in a black gown to receive a diploma. No, we will rise into the clouds to meet Jesus in white robes of his righteousness to receive the crown of life—our entrance into our everlasting life better than any life this world offers.

We will be with God and God with us.

• He will wipe away all tears
• There shall be no more death,
• Neither sorrow,
• Nor crying,
• Neither shall there be anymore pain;
• Former things are passed away.

Life in the here and now is our training, our preparing for life with the Lord. It is the time of God completing the work of our salvation. He has done the work of salvation through Jesus Christ, Now, he is training us in the way of salvation. This is what he means when he says,

“Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed …

work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For it is God which worketh in you

both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

Philippians 2: 12-13, KJV

God continues to teach us, working his wisdom, knowledge, and understanding into our hearts transforming us into the holy people he has already accorded us to be in Christ. In other words, we are in the school of life until our final graduation day. Don’t quit school when the lessons get taught. We are to endure the lessons of life until the end.

Until then, as our adult children enter into the world of “adulting” through careers, labors, paying bills, etc., we all, who are followers of Christ, have entered his kingdom world with a purpose found in our work with him. We are to—

“Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them

in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost;

Teaching them to observe all things

whatsoever I have commanded you:

and lo, I am with you always,

even unto the end of the world. Amen.”

Matthew 28: 19-20, KJV

As we are taught, we are to teach Jesus’s words and life, all he has commanded, his way of life. We are not alone in the job. He is with us. We are to lead others to Christ.

Our graduation have specific requirements to join in the celebration. Only those who have received Jesus Christ as their savior from sin will take part in the joyous ceremony. But all are invited. Have you accepted his invitation?

This week our heavenly Teacher has been instructing me in the class of patience, thanksgiving, and not grumbling.  What classroom have you been in lately?