Back to School 2019!
School starts this week! I can’t believe the summer has flown by so quickly. Just yesterday it was Memorial Day (it seems). We wish our children a very good school year. We hope they succeed beyond their wildest dreams. Yet, at the same time, education in secular matters is not the priority. We must recognize the supremacy of the spiritual (Matthew 6:33). Secular education should be tempered by spirituality. Paul said, “I want you to be wise in what is good, and simple concerning evil” (Romans 16:19).
The world is filled with people who had great education, were successful in life, but died dissatisfied with their accomplishments. This is because the world can never truly satisfy (Proverbs 27:20). We work to gain thinking that the next great thing, accomplishment, or deal will fulfill us. When it finally comes, it lacks the luster that we thought it had, and we move on to the next “next great thing,” and the cycle repeats itself. One day, if we’re lucky, we will wake up and decide that we must do something better with our life. The unlucky never arrive at that day. Proverbs 14:14 states, “The backslider in heart will be filled with his own ways, But a good man will be satisfied from above.”
As we go “back to school” let’s not get so wrapped up in our secular education that we forget that the world and everything in it belongs to God (Psalm 24:1). Let’s prioritize the spiritual. Let’s remember that all the good things that we have come from God (James 1:17), and let’s seek to use those things to the glory of God, including our education (1 Corinthians 10:31).
God bless you, and I love you.
Kevin Cauley