THE GREATEST PROFESSION

I am sitting right now on my chair at the office, doing nothing except tapping my fingers on the keyboard of the computer, just typing the words what my mind conceived and letting it flow through my fingers, not knowing what to write hence I'm praying that God will intervene.

Profession is the word that enters my mind. I looked the meaning of profession in the dictionary and it means an avowal of faith or belief. Avowal on the other hand means a frank acknowledgement or admission. So therefore, anything within the above definition is a profession.

The next thing, that enters my mind is a question. What is the greatest profession? The answer to this question may vary depending on our different opinions. Though, I am a law graduate I consider a Teacher as the greatest profession because many people may have different course or degree but they can also be a teacher as the Lord lead them - to mold and share a life giving spirit to another.

As we read the bible, Jesus is a Teacher. He taught His disciples the ways of the Kingdom. The ways that only pleases the Father.

A second question enters my mind. Is being a teacher easy or not? Well, an understanding came into my mind to answer it in the affirmative. Being a teacher is an easy task if we do it for the love of God and we let the Holy Spirit dictate and lead us - as to when to speak, what to say and whom to say it. As we read the bible, Jesus says that I only say and do what my father tells me to do. He only obeys what the Father commands Him to do. Being a Christian, Jesus is our pattern and blueprint. If we are following Jesus then being a teacher is an easy task.

Another question pop up again, what are the responsibilities of being a teacher? Wow, that's heavy for me...hehehe...you know why that's heavy for me? Before I know the Lord as my Saviour and Bridegroom, I'm really afraid to hear the word responsibility maybe because I am not taught of being responsible. Responsibility for me before is leaving my comfort zone that means being alone. But as I progress in my relationship with the Lord I begin to love and adopt the word responsibility into my life and I found out that there is much greater freedom in knowing and following the Lord.

Now, going back to our topic the Teacher let me incorporate the word responsibility. As Jesus teach the Word of God some believed Him while others persecuted Him. However, even in the midst of persecution Jesus was confident in what He teaches and remain calm and patient to those who are against Him. Jesus was being responsible to His obedience to the Father.

For us Christians, as we teach the word to others we have the responsibility to obey the leading of the Holy Spirit within us to mold and produce a spirit filled people whose heart and love is unto the Lord alone and not unto us. Since the word of God is like a double edged sword, sometimes when we teach through correction the word will stab the innermost part of an individual that some may react to it pointing back and finding fault to us. However, if we do it responsibly meaning according to the leading of the Holy Spirit good fruit will become out of us and unto the one who was corrected.

Isn't the Lord amazing in His ways. A while ago I was doing nothing but now I wrote something...ooopppsss...not just something but a Big Thing because I am sharing about the Big God! If we let God use us to glorify Him, He makes nothing into a Big Thing! It's really true that there is True Freedom if we love the Lord with the "ALL" of us!

METICULOUS

Meticulous in the dictionary means Extremely careful and precise, Extremely or Excessively concerned with details. Extremely on the other hand means to a high degree or extent; favorably or with much respect.

In my life, I have met different kinds of people that are so meticulous in every area of their lives. Some are meticulous in their health, hygiene, foods, in how they arrange things in their house and in their works (of course they must be to earn a living). Some even swipe their hands unto a table to check if it is really clean. Anyway, you may ask as you read along if where I am leading to.

Actually, what cause me to write this blog is that firstly let me tell you an actual experience. I am a Legal Precoder in a certain company here in Cebu. Last week, as I was precoding some statutes and regulations in one of the state of Canada I did not notice that I committed some mistake or error. My TA (Team Assistant) called my attention to the error I made. While he was showing to me the error I made, a thought entered my mind of how meticulous some things are. That even a short error could affect certain things. So, from there my mind run through if what is the WWJT in the situation. WWJT means What Would Jesus Think? I got this term from the book Battlefield of the Mind by Joyce Meyer. I said to myself What would Jesus Think in the situation. Then an understanding came to me that though it is not wrong to be meticulous in our external being, we must give priority to the application of the word meticulous in our inner being.

You may ask, hey salud what do you mean by internal being? Internal being for me concerns our spiritual being. Are we living our life in the will of God or out of His will. I observed that we are so meticulous in our externals that we forgot to be meticulous of our internal. We take a bath once a day and some even three times a day but have we put ourselves in the stillness of the presence of God and let Him convict and cleanse us of how we should brought ourselves in the way God wants us to act, say and live. I think it is now the right time to quiet our spirit and be still and open our heart to Jesus and make Him the Lord of our lives because only through Him that we can receive the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will be the one to convict and guide us to live a life according to God's will.

As it is written that "Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, 'Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, 'Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?' No, the word is very near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it" (Deuteronomy 30:11-14).

Take note! The verse written above was still in the Old Testament. How much more today, that Jesus already died for us. He who is God did not use his being God but WALK as a man just like us to be CRUCIFIED to save us from our sins.

"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross!" (Philippians 2:5-8).

If only we can just open our hearts to Him and surrender our lives.