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The below post is by my friend-Tosin, a regular writer on my blog.
GOD OR MAN: WHICH IS SUITABLE AS A MENTOR. Part 1
The relationship between men can
be likened to be a very strong magnetic field as men require each other to
survive. Irrespective of the struggle to attain independence which is often
attained in terms of individual men being able to decide for themselves what
they require, what they want and what they would love to see attained,
does not remove in anyway whatsoever the need for interaction with other fellow
men who share like minds, similar vision, similar motivation as well as similar
beliefs.
It is not strange among men to
have a man standing in the capacity of Mentor for reasons not usually beyond
the truth that such person has achieved something which is enviable and could
be taught to another so as to become like such person. Mentorship seems to
relate properly with the word ‘perfection’. This relationship is so because
when man looks up to another he sees as perfect example and takes every
utterance made as a stamp print of what things ought to be even when such
person classified mentor is in error as he too is in learning process though
it’s never in the open to the mentored nor is it admitted in the open that the
issue on the floor is not known.
For the believer man does not
qualify to be a mentor simply because man is not the best example for fellow
man. Man relationship with each other would rather be likened to magnet; which
are attracted to each other for specific reasons. Scriptures encourage
fellowship with one another as iron sharpens iron (Proverbs 27:17). The fact that there is a
spiritual grace on another does not place such as superior or perfect over the
other but rather puts such man in a position to offer something that has made
him as he is.
Every man has a good quality or the other as well as a bad
quality which can be added to another or sought to be removed from another for
instance a giver would love to see another who is stingy to develop the habit of
giving because of blessings associated with giving more, so giving reaches out
to others and opens doors rather than blocking avenues to be blessed or
blocking opportunities and in the same vein a thief will not want to show
another the path to steal because of the many troubles associated with it but
would rather require one to lead him out of it or he would be planning on how a
final operation could be done for the jinx to be broken.
Paul told the early church to be
followers of him (Paul) as he was of Christ. Christ was higher than Paul in all
ramifications and had the best of answers to the questions of Paul. When Paul
was formerly Saul it was Christ who appeared to him knowing Paul never knew the
implication of what he was doing and gave him a better job to do which had
higher and better benefit as money. What Paul was getting as a murderer was
nothing compared to the eternal riches which could be attained upon submission
to Christ..
Christ had the better option and alternative. Man would always have
an option as the Pharisees and Sadducees had when Christ was on earth but their option or stand was inferior to Christ
in all ways so though some persons looked up to them as mentors they were
getting something inferior. The
disciples had the perfect mentor with them hence they could align themselves
with all they heard from him in response to their questions and to what he
shared with them even after he had ascended back to heaven and sent the Holy
Spirit to continue with them.
Man cannot have Christ as a
mentor and still put his hope on fellow man. No singular man has all the
answers but Christ has. Our professors, lecturers, teachers, pastors, colleagues and family lack 100% answers to the issues that bug or plague us, they only give us
opinionated responses based on the extent to which they know and a new
acquisition of knowledge can cause them to change their standpoint earlier
presented which displaces them from being true mentors.
Mentors are known for
providing correct answers which can stand the time but when answers can change
or be questioned when man is involved the ideal of having a mentor as a man is
in question.
Part 2 of this post will be available next week Monday morning. Watch out for it.
- Oluwatosin Olatoye
About the writer: Tosin is a trained Lawyer. He is single and lives in Warri, Nigeria. Tosin has a passion for God and everything to do with living right for God. Since I have known Tosin, every conversation that we have always revolves around building our faith in Christ.
Thank you so much Tosin.
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