Hey Stupid!

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,

but he who hates correction is stupid.

Proverbs 12:1

I have joked that I'm a wealth of useless information. For instance--armadillos have leprosy, Emily Morgan was helping Santa Anna with his siesta, and the Melungeons are a mixed race people group from the mountains of western Virginia and the Carolinas. But I'd also like to think I know lots of useful stuff, too. The fact is, I like learning, because I like to know. And I always want to be right.

Instruction doesn't bother me, and I've found that there is always room in my life for more. Just this week, a Pastor friend took me to the Word and showed me something new that just might revolutionize my thinking on a certain matter. Now finding something new in the Bible shouldn't be all that unique--but what he showed me was something I had read, studied, and taught others many times over without ever seeing what was REALLY being said. So thank you, Ed. I learned something this week, even while I was trying to teach others.

But with instruction comes correction, which most people don't like. I don't like being told I'm wrong; probably because it happens so seldom that I forget it's possible (a little humor here). I don't even like being proven wrong, because I try so hard to be right. But when the correction comes, I have a choice. I can either change so that I become right, or I can insist on continuing to be wrong.

He who chooses the latter, the Bible says, is just stupid.