Mentors

This week in my Developing the Focused Life class at Rockbridge Seminary, I really had to do a lot of introspection. The week’s instruction dealt a lot with the need for mentors in our journey. To be quite honest, this is an area that I have been lacking. I have never actively sought out a mentor, or at least someone that I specifically keyed in on specifically for a mentor role. Yet the bible gives tons of examples of the mentor/mentoree relationship when God is calling someone to something.

After going through the week, I have realized that I really do need to make more of an effort to get some mentors in my life. That’s right – mentors as in plural. Why more than one? Well, we all tend to specialize in certain things, don’t we? So when we identify areas in our lives that need improvement, we are probably going to need to find somebody who specializes, or who has a vast amount of experience, in each of those areas.

So why do I need mentoring? There really are a lot of reasons for this – motivation, encouragement, connections, accountability, etc. The list could go on and on, really. But if I were to try to go the journey alone, without any guidance, I would probably run into a lot more brick walls than I need to. I would also have to learn more things the hard way as opposed to drawing on the experience a mentor has to offer. Please pray that God will help me in identifying the people around me that will help me focus in on God’s calling and also that strong relationships will be formed through it.