Are you willing to be taught? Do you yearn to learn new things? Or do you prefer to continue to think you know it all? How many questions do you ask each day? How many do you answer? Are you willing to hear the words of truth? Are you willing to learn from God?
Whether we think about it or not, we continue to learn new things. Just a little more than a couple decades ago, cell phones were a novelty. Sure, you could get one, but all you could do was make a phone call. Who needed the extra expense to have a phone with you at all times?
Fast-forward twenty or so years and our cell phones can do far more than make phone calls. In fact, we make relatively few calls on them compared to everything else we do on them. We surf the web, text one another, read email, play games, take photos, and we can even design web pages on them. They are a computer in our pocket, and we have learned a lot over the past twenty years as we have used them.
But what about learning from others? How many of us are willing to listen to and learn something from someone who doesn’t have the right look nor speak in our language? Most of us would not sit down and listen to advice from a homeless person. However, they know how to survive the bitter cold winter nights on the street. They know where to get food. They know where there is shelter from the storm. They may not look the way they think teachers should look, but they have a lot they can teach us.
We cannot physically see God face-to-face. Yet, he has a lot to teach us as well. We don’t want to read a book that was written thousands of years ago, but truths are truths no matter how old they are. God has continually told the truth. In fact, he is the one by which truth is measured. It doesn’t matter if we like it or not. God is truth and is continually trying to teach us. It is a matter of us listening to his words.
I pray we all will listen to God’s words. I pray we will spend time reading his truth. I pray each one of us will spend time seeking to understand God’s truths so that we may live better lives. Listen to God’s words. Read God’s Word. Know that his words are truth. Seek to understand God’s truths.
Psalm 78:1
Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
Marty Pressey 