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What does the lecturer mean when she says you are here to educate your students for eternity?
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How we educate our students, and what we tell them about the Lord, God is able to use unto their salvation. What is taught in the classroom can have eternal ramifications.
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We are here to educate our studetns for eternity because things of eternal value matter most. At the end of teh day, it does not matter how much a child knows or how well they do, but that you have pointed them to a savior who loves them and wants a relationship with them. I took a Bible course while preparing for my degree, and the professor said in the first course that grades matter less than the person we were learning about. He would rather us get a C in his course and know that our time was spent less on learning facts and more on spending more time with Jesus and growing in our relationship with our Savior. Thats eternally focused education.
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When the lecturer said I am here to educate my students for eternity, she is saying that the foundational understanding of who we are is because of GOD. All of life’s questions of “Where did I come from?”, “Why am I here?”, etc… can be found in God’s Word. Through learning God’s Word and how we are fearfully and wonderfully made, we can help students understand that eternity is what matters most. It does not matter if you have gained the whole world of knowledge and every scholastic award. You cannot take that with you when you die. All will spend eternity in one of two places – heaven or hell. We are able to educate our students to understand that we were made to glorify the Lord and for relationship with Him. Sin separates us from God, but through Jesus Christ and His sacrifice, we can have eternal LIFE instead of eternal separation.
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“We are here to educate your students for eternity” means to me that we (as teachers) are called to teach children that God has a purpose for their life and for their salvation.
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We are created as eternally spiritual beings yet spend a small amount of time dwelling in physical bodies. God commands us to use our time to learn about creation, our role in it, and how we can fulfill God’s plan of redemption. Jesus described it as servants who were given different amounts of talents, a currency of that time. One servant was given 5 talents and, after investing, received 5 more. One was given 2 and gained 2 more. One was given 1 talent but he buried it and returned only that 1 talent with no profit. The first 2 servants were praised and rewarded for their diligence and wisdom. The last servant was rebuked and punished. The master said, “For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.” Mt 25:29 God wants us to have eternal rewards, and we use our time here in our physical bodies to invest in spiritual endeavors, in the character of our students.