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 ...
A positive reflection for a new day...