So many great truths in our reading today. The one that stuck out to me was Prov. 12:1 “Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.” I remember well when I was a teenager, I thought I knew everything. I HATED to be corrected. (Even now I am not really thrilled by being corrected if the truth is known) I have learned the value of taking instruction and even in being corrected. Pride is the culprit in my life to not wanting to be corrected or told I am wrong. When we die to our own pride it allows us to be teachable, flexible, and maybe even find out that our way is not the best way or the fastest. This week we have been with our grandchildren and I can see in both of them that same bent toward wanting to do it their way. Haddon is one now and he already knows how he wants to do things. If he is corrected or reproved to do things another way or even to be removed from doing something he is not to do he has a temper and throws himself to the floor in tears. His mom and dad have worked on that with him, but I have thought often about how human nature is like that. We have in our minds the way we want to do things even if it is not what was best. I guess the writer of Proverbs was right when he says that he who hates reproof is stupid. lol It is so easy to see it in others and I am blind at times to it in me. Father, give me eyes to see and ears to hear when you are teaching me and reproving me. Help me to have a pliable will and spirit to heed your correction with a glad heart. (and help Haddon too.) 🙂