More than Attitude -- Transformation!

Attitude is not enough – condemnation, law, grace, these are more real to us. There is something in us human beings that will just not settle into victory. The uneasy sense that we have done something wrong, that we still have to "do something" always picks at us, even if the final sacrifice has been laid down, and there is no further fear of punishment.

One teacher was always telling me – "attitude is everything". That is just not the case. If a man is dead in his trespasses, he needs a lot more than an “Attitude adjustment.” We need help, health, life itself. We need someone else to give us strength in our lives, because in our own efforts, we are mere weak and beggarly elements.

Attitude is not enough to overcome the culture of disrespect running rampant in our schools. An attitude adjustment has placed a greater burden on the teacher, making it the teacher’s fault once again that the student does not learn.

The students must be compelled into an attitude change, as well. The attitude of most students, at least with substitutes, is that they do not have to listen to you. A substitute is a second-class citizen, someone who does not deserve any respect.

With a culture of such pressure and demand, no wonder a growing number of teachers are leaving the profession.

We need a new heart, a new spirit,that informs our mind. We do not live in our heads, we live in the Kingdom of God, we live in the Grace of God which has been given to us, and our heart is now filled with the laws of Go, written in us by the Holy Spirit, who convicts of righteousness.

Identify with His grace and righteousness, not with our sin and weakness. That's better than attitude. That is renewal of the mind in line with the divine lining the inside of us!