After a recent Wednesday night student service, I was approached by one of our students and they began telling me of how God used the message to speak to them. It was a moment for me to check my spirit, to make sure that the glory was God’s and not mine. It’s never about me. When a student grows in their faith as a result of some attempt by me to teach the Word of God, it is only because of the working of the Spirit of God moving in the lives of these students that accomplishes anything. Yes, I’m humbled for sure, that God would use me in such an awesome way to impact teens. And it’s such a joy to celebrate that in their lives. But I’m also aware of the warning James 3 has for teachers, “Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly. We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check.” It is by the grace of God that I have the joy and privilege of seeing students “get it”. Not from anything I do, but from a simple willingness by me to be moldable by what God is doing in me. If God isn’t doing anything in me, how then can he do anything through me? I know God has given every believer a story to tell. The question then is not can we tell of what God has done in our lives, but will we? To some degree, all of us are teaching others with our lives. People are either seeing Jesus in us or we are leading others away from Jesus based on what they don’t see in our lives. My continual prayer is not that students would hear words, but they would see the words of Jesus lived out in my life and those that live out Jesus in front of them.