7 And you yourself must be an example to them by doing good deeds of every kind. Let everything you do reflect the integrity and seriousness of your teaching. 8 Let your teaching be so correct that it can't be criticized. Then those who want to argue will be ashamed because they won't have anything bad to say about us.
God just decided to nail me about integrity with respect to my teaching. The vision I’m having is a pond, clear and still, that reflects the beauty of the nature around it in an uncorrupted, honest and truthful way.
In the same way, my life and my teaching must be such that my teaching is just a reflect of my teaching, nothing more, nothing less.
I must do good deeds of every kind – can’t remember the last time I even feed a homeless person. That’s a high benchmark.
My teaching can’t be prettied up. I need to reflect life the way I see it. There needs to be truth conveyed in my teaching, nothing more, nothing less.
It reminds me of when I was doing my research in gene therapy as part of my Science degree honours. I kept on wanting to modify the results of my experiments to fit my models. I soon learnt that there is truth even in what appear to be the anomalies. Although I might think I’m correcting errors or enhancing limitations, in reality there’s nothing I can add of value. I need merely reflect the pond.
Even if I’m only reflecting a partial picture, I hope I can reflect that part of the sky with truthfulness.
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