Saturday... But Billy, you shouldn't say that word. Have you ever had your mom say that to you after you had said a certain word, that we shouldn't say? It's not what we should say. The writer of Proverbs 12:1 (NIV) says one of those words. He writes, "Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid." Not a word we would use but it gets to the point, doesn't it? We had a 59 year old man here in Vegas a couple of weeks back who had gotten speeding ticket after speeding ticket who ran a stop sign going 100 miles an hour and hit a van killing a family of seven, and also himself and his passenger. Now that was deadly stupid. Over and over people don't listen to correction and suffer consequences. It really is stupid. Verse 1 in the New Living Translation says, "To learn, you must love discipline, it is stupid to hate correction." It really, really is. The first part is also so important, "To learn, you must love...
A positive reflection for a new day...