God Controls Through Love

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Today’s reading: Psalm 8:1-9

The other day a friend who is a veteran teacher and I were talking about what we both consider the most difficult part of being a teacher: trusting students.

“It’s sometimes very hard to know when to draw the line, when to just give up control and let the students make their own mistakes,” my friend said.

As a teacher myself, I agreed.

But today’s reading offers some help with that dilemma.

“For thou has made (mankind– including students –) to have dominion over the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet. All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the past of the seas.”

If I am to follow this glorious example, I must acknowledge that the ideal “line” of control (in a classroom or any other social realm) is no line at all. God has shown, through his own trust of me to care for his creation, that the most effective leader is one who simply loves. By God’s great design, no “control” is necessary.

Thanks be to God, as always, for His eternal love and trust. May I one day actually deserve it!