Being Teachable
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· 1,537 viewsA quality in those who desire to learn, present in the disciples of Jesus Christ and seen in Christ’s relationship to his Father. Unwillingness to receive the truth leads to spiritual darkness.
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The importance of teachableness
The importance of teachableness
Meekness is about having a teachable spirit. Meek people don’t pretend that they know it all. They look for opportunities to continually learn. Faithful Christians constantly look for opportunities to learn more about Jesus. Jesus wants us to learn as much about Him as we possibly can. Jesus wants us to be teachable. Look at what Jesus said in Matthew chapter eleven:
“Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: And you shall find rest to your souls.”
Can we not use this verse and by extension say that if we do not have rest for our souls as of yet that perhaps we are not learning about Jesus (His way).
For spiritual growth
For spiritual growth
And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him.
For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives.”
It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline?
If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.
Besides this, we have had earthly fathers who disciplined us and we respected them. Shall we not much more be subject to the Father of spirits and live?
For they disciplined us for a short time as it seemed best to them, but he disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.
For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,
About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food,
for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, since he is a child.
But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.
Does this not fit our world today? God help us when we, the Church, have become so Gospel hardened that we feel and act as if we have heard it all. we know it all, and we have very few people we would listen to or respect.
For a life of obedience
For a life of obedience
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
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Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
For discerning God’s guidance
For discerning God’s guidance
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.
Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths.
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
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Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
You may be thinking, “I’ve heard all of this before, but I have tried and I’m not succeeding as I would like. What am I missing?”
I’m glad you asked
As in any worthwhile endeavor in life, you have to be ready or risk never getting all you can from the lessons of God in your life.
The requirements for teachableness
The requirements for teachableness
Eagerness to learn
Eagerness to learn
An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
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The Lord God has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary. Morning by morning he awakens; he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
The Lord God has opened my ear, and I was not rebellious; I turned not backward.
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Willingness to learn
Willingness to learn
From God:
From God:
saying, “If you will diligently listen to the voice of the Lord your God, and do that which is right in his eyes, and give ear to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you that I put on the Egyptians, for I am the Lord, your healer.”
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Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’
From God’s representatives:
From God’s representatives:
Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off
and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.”
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From godly parents:
From godly parents:
Come, O children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
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From the wise:
From the wise:
Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
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From Jesus Christ:
From Jesus Christ:
The queen of the South will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
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From the Holy Spirit:
From the Holy Spirit:
And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say,
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
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Readiness to ask for help
Readiness to ask for help
So Philip ran to him and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and asked, “Do you understand what you are reading?”
And he said, “How can I, unless someone guides me?” And he invited Philip to come up and sit with him.
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Readiness to pray for wisdom
Readiness to pray for wisdom
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
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Readiness to pray for spiritual insight
Readiness to pray for spiritual insight
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his great might
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Humility
Humility
Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise.
For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness,”
and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.”
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Living by truth already known
Living by truth already known
So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
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Jesus Christ was willing to be taught by the Father
Jesus Christ was willing to be taught by the Father
No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.
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Hindrances to teachableness
Hindrances to teachableness
The activity of the devil
The activity of the devil
In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
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Not having the Holy Spirit
Not having the Holy Spirit
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Unwillingness to be taught
Unwillingness to be taught
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, who teaches you to profit, who leads you in the way you should go.
Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
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Reliance on the wisdom of the world
Reliance on the wisdom of the world
For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.”
Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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Being afraid to ask questions
Being afraid to ask questions
Some have felt that it is disobedient or presumptuous to ask of God anything.
But they did not understand the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
But the Bible declares to us that we should
If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
No matter what your question is, or what you need to know, God has your answer. Specifically for you in your situation, all He requires is a teachable spirit.