Wednesday... This word caught my attention.

Psalm 12:1 (NIRV) says, "Anyone who loves correction loves knowledge. Anyone who hates to be corrected is stupid." In four of the five translations that I look at each morning they used the word, "stupid".

Now the MESSAGE Paraphrase says, "If you love learning, you love the discipline that goes with it - how shortsighted to refuse correction." And both the word shortsighted and stupid are very pointed words to use.

We like praise don't we? And we like to be right. But loving correction is very important thing in being right. Many times in many ways we need to be corrected.

We didn't like to get check marks on our tests in school, did we? But I found that in learning getting those check marks helped me. I never looked back at the answers that I got right but I did the ones that I got wrong and many times those were the ones that I remembered.

Our pride gets in the way of all of this. We must be right even when we are wrong. That's why many don't want to read the Bible. They don't like to see where they are wrong but that is stupid. It really is.

Let's say I want to leave Vegas and go to LA but when I get to Interstate 15 I turn North instead of South and all the others in the car are afraid to correct me because they are afraid of how I will react. And that is stupid. Now six of us are going tomorrow to Disneyland. There is no way that we are going to get there going North on Interstate 15. We will get to Salt Lake City but not to LA and Disneyland. And in that I want to go to Disneyland I love that someone was strong enough to correct me.

Now we are living in a society that is very stupid. And I don't want to be one of them. The NLT says, "To learn, you must love discipline; it is stupid to hate correction." So let's not be stupid. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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