A popular phrase in the last decade has been, who is your daddy? Who owns you? Who has your number? Who are you beholden to? It’s also the title to “B” rated 2003 movie that never made it anywhere. I guess the producer-director didn’t know the answer to the question. But, one of the most important questions that one will decide is, who is your MASTER, as in who is your TEACHER?
Another definition for master is a revered religious leader! We are called to make disciples, not converts! We are called to mentor and help transform people, not sell them on various doctrines. The master spiritual teacher will guide by example and take you along on the journey: a journey one would not even begin on their own.
One of the most important things that I have learned in life is to choose right masters, spiritual father, guide, mentor, and teachers. I’m at an age now where a spiritual father has given way to master teachers. The accountability is there, but I no longer need the basics that a father gives. I need the life flow that a master gives.
You can’t be just an apprentice to Jesus alone!
I am further down the road in my journey to being more Christ-like, a disciple, because of the masters I have and am following. You seldom can go where another has not gone. There are few that can be called a pioneer, so don’t think you are one. No student is perfect! The twelve disciples proved that. But, they listened to “the Master“. They ultimately gave their life for the master.
I have been blessed greatly so, and I still am, for the spiritual masters that the Holy Spirit has sent my way. Everyone has them offered many times in life. We just choose not to follow or we’re too busy to engage them. I admit there are few. It takes many, many years of living, experience to be worthy of a revered spiritual leader. In America, we’re more into develping pastors, church CEO’s, mega-TV personalities, and authors.
Religion departments and colleges look for men who can write a book a month, get known, and bring fame to their school. The priority is not on who can transform lives. That takes too long. Jesus didn’t write any books. He didn’t start any schools, and His classroom was not in a building. Jesus simply became a master teacher to twelve men! And with them he transformed the world! Why have we forgetten that model?
You and I both know the answer, don’t we!
It seems that we are constantly looking outside for the “answer”. But I have found that when I looked inside I found alot of the answers. But I wasn’t looking inside the George that I knew for the past 50 years. I was looking inside the George that was “in Christ before the foundation of the world”. Once I truly believed I was there I could see the 2 “me’s that Paul talked about. I realized who I really was and I could begin to stop the silly games of the ego and just trust that my life was His and that my decisions were not all “life and death”, that if I made a mistake He wasn’t going to burn me. I learned that nothing can separate me from his love, even stupid, old me. The scriptures says nothing created can separate me from Him, and that means mostly me. I will have free will to chose Him until “I do” !!!! Things sure got alot easier realizing that all things happen for a reason and that reason is for me to realize my Father is a spirit and so am I. This world and body is simply a classroom to teach me that even tho I feel separate, I am not. Jesus being the perfect example, said “The Father and I are one”. He simply stated the truth, and the truth does set you free.
John 10:30 for sure!