Proverbs 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge:
But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
The way to growth and improvement goes through learning. The way to learning goes through tests, experience and often hardships.
Life is hard. I can seem like going down one of these fast slides at a water park; we get so dizzy going down all the curves and turns. Then, we get thrown into high and angry waters, and it seems to be all we can do just to keep afloat. We even lose our sense of direction so that we don’t know anymore which way is which. Life can also seem like swimming an angry sea. The waves go so high, we wonder which one will take us down. Every once in awhile though the waters are quiet and we can gently float carried by the surface of the waters. At such times, we can look back and appreciate our learning curve. We realize we have learned to be a much stronger and wiser swimmer of waters of life.
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge:
But he that hateth reproof is brutish.
The way to growth and improvement goes through learning. The way to learning goes through tests, experience and often hardships.
Life is hard. I can seem like going down one of these fast slides at a water park; we get so dizzy going down all the curves and turns. Then, we get thrown into high and angry waters, and it seems to be all we can do just to keep afloat. We even lose our sense of direction so that we don’t know anymore which way is which. Life can also seem like swimming an angry sea. The waves go so high, we wonder which one will take us down. Every once in awhile though the waters are quiet and we can gently float carried by the surface of the waters. At such times, we can look back and appreciate our learning curve. We realize we have learned to be a much stronger and wiser swimmer of waters of life.
Those are wonderful moments.
A problem we have in our western industrial modern urban society is that we know longer appreciate pain, discomfort and hardship. Right away we pop a pill to stop the pain, and we either have a machine or a paid employee do the hard work for us. When we do that, we lose the strengthening of the pain and we rob ourselves from the experience of the hardship.
The difference between a wise human being and a brute beast is the ability to learn and progress. Once we hate the pains of instruction, we loose the ability to learn. Once we lose the ability to learn, we have become brutish, foolish, stupid.
So let us not be like the fool and despise life’s challenges. Let us embrace them with the knowledge that these tests are the ladder of knowledge that take us to new heights of wisdom. Let us look at the pains of God’s instruction with anticipation, knowing that on the other sides of their dark and cold tunnel, we will find new, wider brighter horizons.
A problem we have in our western industrial modern urban society is that we know longer appreciate pain, discomfort and hardship. Right away we pop a pill to stop the pain, and we either have a machine or a paid employee do the hard work for us. When we do that, we lose the strengthening of the pain and we rob ourselves from the experience of the hardship.
The difference between a wise human being and a brute beast is the ability to learn and progress. Once we hate the pains of instruction, we loose the ability to learn. Once we lose the ability to learn, we have become brutish, foolish, stupid.
So let us not be like the fool and despise life’s challenges. Let us embrace them with the knowledge that these tests are the ladder of knowledge that take us to new heights of wisdom. Let us look at the pains of God’s instruction with anticipation, knowing that on the other sides of their dark and cold tunnel, we will find new, wider brighter horizons.
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