A true guide

Scripture Read: Romans 2:11 For there is no partiality with God.12 For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;13 for it is not the hearers of the Law who are just before God, but the doers of the Law will be justified.14 For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,15 in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them,16 on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ Jesus.17 But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God,18 and know His will and approve the things that are essential, being instructed out of the Law,19 and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and of the truth,21 you, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that one shall not steal, do you steal?22 You who say that one should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?23 You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God?24 For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

Application:  “Guide” ὁδηγός hodēgós; from hodós - way, and hēgéomai - to lead. A leader of the way, a guide, ὁδηγός is found in the NT only in the lit. sense of “leader,” “escort.” Judas is called this in Ac. 1:16 because he led the police to the place where they could arrest Jesus, the meaning is the lit. one of “guides” rather than “teachers.” 

“Corrector”  παιδευτής paideutés; An instructor (Rom. 2:20); a corrector, a chastiser Paul devoted himself to the study of the Law of the fathers according to the precise method of Rabbinic and Pharisaic exegesis. Hence he was zealous for God and the Law. From his youth up he was educated in the Law. He could thus understand the importance of such education for the pagan world. As a Christian and an apostle, however, he had to dispute the claim of the Jews to be παιδευτὴς. The Jew has knowledge and truth in the palpable form of the Law. The expressions quoted do not refer, at least in the first instance, to an intellectual understanding or the consequent transmission of a doctrine. The reference is to the practical influencing of life and moral conduct which was necessarily and not at all arbitrarily bound to shine forth from the strictness and consistency of the Jewish mode of life into the morally insecure and religiously questing world around.

This is the essence of what it means to be a real teacher of God. Not only the data AND not only the actions – BUT a deep belief from inside my heart and soul that these truths are true. That is what produces real authenticity of the message. This is where we can struggle Lord. We  know what we believe and want to perform that, but our flesh seems to win far to often. Am I lying to myself? I want to sense that what I know to be true has the power to overcome what my flesh wants!! Continue to guide me Oh God! I am in joy when my life inside and out match what I know You are!