Mentor

I love the concept of mentoring. I love having mentors – some close, some far, some living, and some dead. I thank God that we can learn from others who go before us and build our faith and hope for the future.

Recently I started to think about the ultimate mentor. I started to imagine what it would be like to have one mentor with all the best qualities of all the best human mentors I can imagine and even more.

Imagine someone who knows everything, seen everything and been everywhere – someone who has been around since the very beginning of time.

Imagine someone who worked closely with great men such as King David and St Paul.

Imagine a mentor who is literally all-powerful, and is ready to share all His power and knowledge with you – willing to actually give you the power and whisper the truth into your ear.

Imagine someone who knows absolutely everything about you and yet totally believes in you anyway.

Imagine that mentor always has time for you, warmly inviting you and walking with you everyday.

Imagine a mentor who is always looking out for you, who leads you, speaking to your heart and helping you to make the best decisions, and gently warning you about the bad ones.

We couldn’t find such a resourceful and loving mentor in all the earth, if we could, we certainly couldn’t afford it. But freely He offers to mentor us, and patiently He waits for us to ask.