What Does God’s Classroom Look Like?

"Teacher, we know how honest you are. You teach about the way of God
regardless of the consequences. You are impartial and don't play favorites."
Matthew 22:16 (NLT)

Jesus was called Teacher by those who knew Him. Where there’s a teacher, there is usually some sort of a classroom. I believe God’s classroom is in the shape of a heart and it is found inside each one of us. As we live each day, we learn and we grow from the inside out. All the places we travel with God on our journey through this life become different classrooms, different ways God’s lessons touch our hearts--each experience opens up for us new adventures where we’re taught new things before moving onto the next adventure. God allows us to experience different things because He uses them as great tools for teaching us.

It’s like this world we live in is just one big classroom, with God as our Teacher. Each day a subject is chosen, be that, "How to love our neighbor better," or "How to better our studying skills." Sometimes we really don’t like the course all that well. Sometimes it’s a fun course like art; sometimes it’s an extremely difficult course like Trigonometry.

In all this learning as we travel through life, it doesn’t really matter what classroom we are in. There are those in "Love III," and those in "Love I." It doesn’t mean that some are behind in their learning schedule. God has different people in different classes at different times for a reason. Because of all the different classes going on, God provides mentors who are more experienced in what they have been taught by the Great Teacher to then tutor others. The most helpful tips a mentor can pass on to anyone are:

Get to know the Teacher!! (Desire a personal relationship with God)
Call Him at Home each day! (Pray)
Read the Book He has assigned! (Stay in the Word)
and finally…PAY ATTENTION! (Be willing to hear God and then listen to God)

So many of us are daydreaming. We are sitting in a "Classroom" somewhere, and we are not focused…for whatever reason. Perhaps we have "more important" things to be doing, perhaps we think we already know what’s being taught on that day, or perhaps we’re just bored with the whole subject of life because it really hasn’t been what we expected. We were hoping for something a little more exciting…

The Classroom that God sets up in our heart is the most exciting course ever, if we will simply pay attention. It is a classroom that is preparing us for our eternity with Him. If we’re daydreaming our way through this life, it’s time to stop. It’s time to pay attention, to focus, and to complete the assignments He has given us and continues to give us. Not so we can hold them up and say, "Look what I have done!" But instead, so that we can say, "Look what the Lord has done while I was paying attention to Him!" Then when we arrive Home from "school"-- when we pass through the doorway of heaven and come face to face with our Father, He will be able to say to us, "Well done."