In order to reach your full potential in life you need to consistently make significant changes as you go. Change requires learning, correction and instruction. Some lessons in life are self-taught or gleaned from observation. Others come from correction or rebuke by people who play a role in our lives. Truly great people embrace corrections from whatever source and quickly grasp the opportunities they provide for advancement and refinement.
How well do you take reproof? Do you only have to be told something once for you to change your conduct? Or do you need to be told repeatedly? Do a hundred stripes of punishment from men and God only serve to harden you? This is an important acid test of wisdom. The wise person is improved by a single reproof. He or she often goes out of their way to seek feedback to help them become better.
It is not so with the fool. The fool does not like correction. As much as possible, they avoid the one who is likely to criticise their work or challenge them to a higher standard. My good friend, the late Myles Munroe, once said, “Being open to correction means making yourself vulnerable, and many people are unwilling to do that.” People like that are often defensive. Because they see corrections as personal attacks on them, they often react emotionally to any form of feedback. The end result is that the fool rarely changes even after the most devastating consequences or punishment.
Scripture Reading:
Proverbs 17:1-10
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How well do you take reproof? Do you only have to be told something once for you to change your conduct? Or do you need to be told repeatedly? Do a hundred stripes of punishment from men and God only serve to harden you? This is an important acid test of wisdom. The wise person is improved by a single reproof. He or she often goes out of their way to seek feedback to help them become better.
It is not so with the fool. The fool does not like correction. As much as possible, they avoid the one who is likely to criticise their work or challenge them to a higher standard. My good friend, the late Myles Munroe, once said, “Being open to correction means making yourself vulnerable, and many people are unwilling to do that.” People like that are often defensive. Because they see corrections as personal attacks on them, they often react emotionally to any form of feedback. The end result is that the fool rarely changes even after the most devastating consequences or punishment.
Prayer:
Father, grant me a teachable spirit to receive corrections and reproof with meekness and to be instructed by Your word.Scripture Reading:
Proverbs 17:1-10
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