Remembering Leaders and Mentors

UV 4164/10000 Remembering Leaders and Teachers Remember your leaders (for it was they) who brought you the word of God; and consider the result of their conduct (the outcome of their godly lives), and imitate their faith ( their conviction that God exists and is the Creator and ruler of all things, the Provider of eternal salvation through Christ, and imitate their reliance on God with absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom and goodness:. Hebrews 13 v 7 We are to remember those who led us to Christ. Those who laboured hard to minister to us. We are to imitate their lives and their faith. God had used them as His messengers to kindle our faith. When we honour them, we honour God. Hence, Paul wrote to Timothy, “Imitate me even as I imitate Christ.” We are to model ourselves on the godly example set by godly leaders and not the blind leaders of this world. We need to spend time with them to understand their motives in serving God and emulate their sense of purpose and mission. We are called to emulate and not to adulate the leaders the Lord has used to bless us. In no way, do they take the place of the Lord in our lives. Our focus should be on Jesus but at the same time, we should not forget our debt to the human leaders He used to groom, prepare, train and teach us the ways of God. Their lives and examples should be an encouragement to us to be faithful. We need to be generous with our time and our help to them in times of need. Remembering also means we need to uphold our pastors, evangelists, elders, prophets before the Lord in prayer on a daily and constant basis. We need to pray for their protection, their work, their ministry so that they continue to be strengthened and established in the Lord, that the hindrances in their paths be removed, that they be guarded from temptations and persecutors. The way we remember our teachers is itself a sign and mark of our own faithfulness to the Lord.