Responsibility | Learning

“They will all be taught by God” (John 6:45).

A University of New Mexico professor gave his students an opportunity to evaluate his Course at the end of the semester. One student said, “I liked the Course, but I feel very strongly that the professor put too much of the responsibility for learning on the students.” The problem that we have is that we like God’s Course (We wouldn’t be here today if we didn’t), but we act as though we feel very strongly that God has put too much responsibility for learning on us students. But that is precisely what He does. He puts a heavy burden of responsibility for learning on each individual student — on you and on me. It is easier to rely on someone else’s hair-splitting decisions about how to relate to other persons than it is to try to relate in our own lovingly creative way. It is easier to cry “Vengeance” than to pray for your enemy. It…