Failure to encourage others is one of the key weaknesses in the youths today. One of the main reasons for this fault is many students are selfish minded instead of study minded. Teachers are also overwhelmed by their circumstances, problems, and difficulties that they are distracted from thinking of the needs of others. Are you an encouraging person? Do you lift people up or tear them down by your actions, your attitudes, and your words? If you are weak in this area, then pay careful attention to this study about the responsibility of encouragement.
I would like to share some of my experience of becoming a best encourager, because as a teacher, it is a must that we have this kind of trait, aside from this we are dealing different people every day with different circumstances they are facing in life.
It is very difficult to give joy and encouragement when you don’t have it yourself. The people doing the encouraging need to be secure, confident, resourceful, and on solid footing themselves if they are going to effectively help others. The selfish unforgiving, bitter, critical, frustrated, fighting, and argumentative person is seldom an encourager.
Encouragement is very important to our survival in battling. It is like oxygen to the soul. It energizes like a battery and comforts like sunshine after a rain or like coins in our pocket.
An encourager…
- assures when one is apprehensive
- cheers those in fear
- motivates those who hesitate
- inspires the tired
- urges those on the verge of surrender or defeat
- stirs up those who want to settle down with the status quo
- fires up those who are feeling like a failure
- counsels us to make up with those we have offended.
- commanded to give an attention on how to encourage one another (Hebrews 10;24-25)
- to encourage those who deserve it ( Proverbs 3:27)
- to encourage the weak and not our selves (Romans 15:1)
We will find encouragement in our own life when we form… an attachment to the Almighty, a detachment from depravity, an acknowledgement of God’s ability and the management of the Messiah over our lives making Him our master.
The following are the responsible of an encourager:
The ability to encourage is a GIFT FROM THE LORD. Do not waste it and throw it away. Ask the Lord for help and for ideas on how to be blessings to others and most especially to our students.
By: Ricer B. Santoyo | Teacher III | MNHS-Cabcaben
