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don't know why some kids love school and other kids hate it,
but we all know it's true. I fell into
both categories when I was a student... and (come to think of it) when I was a
teacher too. It mostly had to do with
success and failure. When I was
succeeding, I loved it. And when I
wasn't, I hated it. Of course, that
statement convolutes the picture a bit because my love or hatred for learning
greatly affected my successes and failures in that endeavor. Sometimes I just had other things that I
wanted to do, and school seemed to be in the way. At other times, the subject matter was
tedious, seemed irrelevant or was (according to my perception) too complex for
my small brain. I suppose there were
cases also when the time necessary to master a subject was too long and so I
just got weary. Even Solomon recognized
that quantity in education can be exhausting (Ecclesiastes 12:12).
But, in the end, I have learned that being
receptive towards (and memorizing, searching thoroughly, striving to
understand, asking questions about, investing in and investigating) God's truth
pays endless dividends. Valuing and
digging for a fresh nugget of doctrine has become a way of life. Understanding and knowing God is my highest
pursuit. Admittedly, my own natural
appetites distract me all too frequently, but I have tasted of the heavenly
gift and have determined that a permanent diet of the same is a course to be
desired. Interestingly, in Proverbs 1 we
were told to avoid the ways of sinners if we covet wisdom... in this chapter we
are told that wisdom will preserve us and prevent us from descending onto the
path of evil men. So, you see, there is
a cyclical snowball effect here... so it works both ways. Evil begets foolishness, and foolishness
begets more evil. Likewise, moral
discipline begets wisdom and wisdom moral discipline.
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