STAY TEACHABLE

DAY 177

Matthew 7:4 Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me get the speck out of your eye,’ when there is a log in your own eye?

Jesus describes the man who misses the log in their own eye but can clearly see the speck in another’s eye as a hypocrite (Mt 7:5). Beyond this description, we are probably talking about a person who perceives the log in their eye as a non existing problem. Even though it is clearly blinding them and impeding their judgement, to them, there is no log and their eyes are fine.

Such is the state of heart and mind of those who believe they can do nothing wrong. They are alpha-omega so whatever they say holds with zero tolerance for amendment. They are neither correctable, teachable nor are they malleable. You criticise, even constructively, and rebuke them at your own peril. What a sad state of heart.

A quote by Alvin Toffler comes to mind ‘the illiterate of the 21st century are not those who can not read or write, it is those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn.’ You know a lot, and you are an expert – we do not doubt that, we agree. But in spite of your expertise, you can’t know it all and you can get it wrong. This is wisdom.

It is complete folly and plainly dangerous to become convinced that you can do no wrong’. That is not wisdom.

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