Thursday, October 8, 2015

Start Time: 5:20 AM

End Time: 5:41 AM

Title: Give Yourself To Disciplined Instructions

Scriptures: Proverbs 23:12

God’s Message/Promise/Commands:

Amazing day with Jesus!  Proverbs 23:12 says, "Listen to your teacher and learn all you can." This is in the Easy to Read version but I want to use the "Message" version for today.  Verse 12 of Proverbs 23 says, Give yourselves to disciplined instruction; open your ears to tested knowledge.  Now, this version gives us a deeper understanding of what listening to our teacher means.  It says "give yourself to disciplined instruction" - Hallelujah!  How many times have our hearts and ears hardened when we are disciplined?  At times, when we make a mistake, we are aware of the wrong that we have done, but instead of welcoming the lesson that our teacher tells (the teacher could be your parents, siblings, actual teacher, grandparents, or anyone who normally scold us when we did something wrong) us, we tend to disregard their voice and not listen to them.  Not because we don't understand but because we are aware that we did wrong and we don't want to listen to the wrong we did repeatdly.  But in this verse, we learn that we are to give ourselves to disciplined instruction; it is understandable if we don't want to listen to the wrong we did repeatedly but we must recognize the wrong we did and not just neglect it.  The Lord continued on by saying that we must "open our ears to tested knowledge".  I am guilty of this because I consider myself a wise woman and one that is logical.  At times when I make a mistake, I am aware of it and I learned from it but I don't want others to tell me about it anymore, normally my sister is this person i am talking about.  However I realized that my sister may repeat the mistakes I make but at times, she will speak something that I haven't considered and will allow me to actually grow and mature from this mistake (although, I don't usually admit it to her face) but the truth is, it helps.  So just like what the Lord said, let us give ourselves to disciplined instructions and open our earts to tested knowledge.

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, help me to have a humble heart that I may be open to disciplined instructions at all times and to open my ears to tested knowledge.  Many times, my pride and ego distracts me and cover my ears and hardens my heart to the truth, but remind me Lord at all times that I need help doing what is right and sometimes, I will ear truth from You through people that I least expect or want to tell me about it.  So help me Lord to realize to learn and make my heart teachable always.  In Jesus' Name, Amen!

Memory Verse Share for today:

Proverbs 23:12 (The Message Version)

Give yourselves to disciplined instruction; open your ears to tested knowledge.

Do you have someone in your life that you have a hard time listening to?  This person normally is part of your family, like a mother, father, siblings or even grandparents.  They are the people who think they know better and the hard part is that they do...and that even makes it harder to listen to them.  I don't know if you understand what I mean, but if you do.  Well, God tells us today that we are to give ourselves to disciplined instruction and open our ears to tested knowledge, no matter who it came from.  Because the truth is, for us to be hearing it from someone we least expect, or from someone we don't like, is already one of the many teachings/lessons we have to learn and accept in life. 

Happy Thursday!