10 May 2011
Deuteronomy 6:6-7 And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.
What a blessing it is to have a teachable heart. So many people simply do not have this, they believe that they are always right and they will do things their way no matter how you try to teach them. This is a problem from a child, and reflects the character of the parenting as well as the structure of the home life. A rebellious child, will always reject authority, and in later life this rebellion continues and the result is a person who is un-teachable.
To have a teachable heart starts with the ability to submit, to submit to authority, a knowledge that one can learn and change, to want to learn. It also reflects the ability to serve, to do things as a servant of others, to be humble and never seeing oneself as better than anybody else. It is also implies that you do not interfere, interfere in what others are doing, or to believe that you have the right to even when you do not. It is the ability to observe and learn from others, and to humbly acknowledge that.
Most of all a teachable heart starts with a relationship that the Word of God is central and that Jesus is the Teacher and we learn from His lessons taught to us. We do not presume to be the teacher, when we have not learnt the lessons ourselves. A teachable heart always is open to learning new things, new ways, and growing in faith and love.
Be encouraged today to allow your heart to be teachable.
Point to ponder: God loves a teachable heart.
Question to consider: Do you have a teachable heart?
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