Correction is good.

Correction is good! 

Can I be honest with you? 

I know none of us . . . young or old . . . including me, enjoys being corrected. If you are like me, when confronted, I tend to excuse my errors or worse; point out what others may be doing wrong as well. Misery loves company. I will diminish my wrongdoing even to the point of blaming others or deflecting my wrongs. Does that sound like you as well?

As iron sharpens iron,
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. (Proverbs 27:17)

If we do not accept criticisms or corrections, we will continue doing things wrong. We will not grow. Worse yet, we could come to failure or calamity. As with sports, the only way to do things right is to do things right. If we are failing due to an incorrect method, then we will continue to fail. Correction is good, no matter how it hurts. How we point out others' misgivings is the key. We do it in love!

Spiritually speaking, we all need correction. As sinners, there is only one way, one Person to an eternal relationship with God the Father . . . Jesus. To know Him is to accept His correction and repent of our sin. He died and rose from the grave as a price for our sin debt. To be corrected . . . or cleansed . . . we must repent and believe in Him!

I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.” (Luke 5:32)

Accept Jesus today and turn from sin.

Why so much education????

Is education so important?  Why so much anyway? Read on . . .

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, taught according to the strictness of our fathers’ law, and was zealous toward God as you all are today. (Acts 22:3)

Paul (Saul) was a well-educated and well-rounded man. He was taught by the best teacher in the Temple and was socially educated as well. He was a "Hebrew of Hebrews" and also a citizen of Rome! Just read his pedigree here in Philippians:

If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless . . . (Philippians 3:4-6)

God used all of Paul's education and social graces to reach all people groups. He may not have known at the time of his education what God would do, but God did! So get educated . . . in all ways . . . not simply in the classroom, but in society and in the scriptures. Allow God to teach you and use you! We never stop learning!