Thursday, December 16, 2010

Do I love to learn? Many love to learn new things. The Bible says that knowledge "puffs up". We are in an age of knowledge. We can go to google or the internet and find out just about anything, and yet I find that we are not being taught by this information and changing our lives but rather being "puffed up". Today there are a lot of puffed up people walking around bumping into each other rather than learning and being taught be each other. Having a teachable spirit means that you let another teach you. They lead, you follow. In this information age with so much knowledge on the internet and all around us, I fear that we are taking in all this information and not connecting instead with others older and wiser than we are. We become a bunch of know it all's that don't need others and don't ask for help. I am suggesting that being teachable means that we don't have all the answers and we admit we need help. We let another lead us, mentor us, teach us, and yes at times discipline us. This discipline often comes in the form of challenging us and questioning us, holding us accountable for our actions and the outcome of our actions. We all to some extent want to do our own thing. But real growth comes when we let others teach us and we follow, learn, and change in the process...

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