A teachable heart

8 August 2011

Psalms 25:4-5 Make me to know thy ways, O LORD; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me, for thou art the God of my salvation; for thee I wait all the day long.

Experience is something that one gains through the mistakes and failures of life, and success is usually as result of learning from one’s mistakes and so gaining the experience needed in life. An expert is a person with enough experience to know how to fix the mistake. What we gain from this is the ability to realise that mistakes are not bad but are part of the development of experience in life.

Preparation and ability to use time is part of the expertise that we learn and it does not help to rush when patience is needed.  So if one bakes a cake it takes time for it to be baked properly in the oven. In the same way growing as a Christian also takes time and experience, knowing how to bake a cake is not the same as baking it and then when tasting it to be able to tell what is good and bad in the final product. It took Paul the Apostle many years to become the missionary, it took Jesus Christ three years plus to teach His disciples and they still did not get the lesson. Yet they all had teachable hearts and experience became theirs because of it.

Yet today we have people who are walking and beginning churches with half baked ideas and believing that the truth has only been revealed to them, believing that their personal experience and so reject the history and teaching of the past.

Be encouraged today to have a teachable heart.

David

Point to ponder: We experience God.

Question to consider: Do you have a teachable heart?

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