THE TEACHER IS COME AND CALLS THEE
K. G. Samways
I felt, and have felt since Lord’s day that the Lord has clearly spoken to us, beloved brethren. Our brother who has just spoken may be unaware of the subject of the reading on Lord’s day.
We spoke together of the positive side of divine teaching, drawing from, “But ye have not thus learnt the Christ”, Ephesians 4: 20. The teaching is still continuing. What a Teacher we have! O, to get some sound of His voice! He is here. He has come. He is here presently, beloved brethren, He has come and He is calling. The appeal goes out to us each one not to miss the sound of that voice, it is calling in this present hour.
The lessons are hard, the teaching is on a one to one basis. I love to think of that; the Teacher draws alongside the pupil just to see how the pupil is getting on. Think of Him conveying His own mind in the middle of a lesson. Beloved Mr. Lyon spoke to a brother of ninety in our locality, who had a difficulty about a certain situation, and said to him, Dear brother, the exam has been set, and I do not want you to fail in it. The brother passed the exam. What exams have been set! What exams have been set in God’s school! I love to think of that. God is interested in His pupils. The discipline, the love, the grace, that our brother has spoken of, we are learning, it is a time for formation. I have gone on too long myself in a form of things—the learning is to be real. God is seeking, the Lord Jesus is seeking reality in individuals; let us not miss it. “The teacher is come and calls thee”. Think of that! No individual here present this evening is beyond the Teacher. What grace relates to the teaching, we are learning the Christ.
We are soon to be with Him, no more to go out. What a time that will be, the teaching over, the exams passed, when we shall be like Him. The formation in this time scene will be completed, the lessons that have been learned in the sanctuary, in God’s school made effective. The Spirit of God is working in the hearts of those that love Christ, to bring about something that relates to the likeness of the Teacher in the lessons that we are passing through. We shall be like Him. Think of that! Beloved brothers, beloved sisters, beloved younger and older persons, the Teacher is come and calls thee. May we hear His call.
Word in meeting for ministry, Grangemouth
15 November 1994