July 7th - "Teachable?"

"Reprove a wise man and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning."   Proverbs 9:8b-9

Are you teachable? Or are you easily offended when corrected or criticized? Most people want to be wiser, but don't like the way wisdom is packaged. If we have good friends, they will sometimes tell us what we don't want to hear; in love. Those who are not teachable, don't have such friends because they get offended easily and thereby don't keep honest relationships for very long. If none of the people in your life challenge or correct you, you are probably not a very teachable person. Do you want strong bones? Drink a lot of milk. Do you want to be wiser? Love correction and benefit from every form of reprove that comes your way.