One of the greatest dangers in life is believing that all your thoughts are true. (Jon Acuff)
Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety. (Proverbs 11:14)
Accept the Value of Teachability.
As a person grows in self-awareness, they naturally grow in other areas as well, including teachability. Why? Because they will humbly welcome the input of others, rather than despise and resist it, even when it’s painful. They will take it to heart and make needed changes accordingly.
A teachable person is a constantly growing person and one who is not stuck in a rut of their own ways of thinking. Because for most people, it’s unlikely that they will ever change without a willingness to be honestly self-aware. And the older we get, the harder this becomes.
Every person is being formed, the question is who or what are we being formed into? And we will naturally become more of what we already are, unless through self-awareness we realize that’s not who we want to be.
This is why most elderly people are either the best people you know or the worst. You don’t meet many middle-of-the-road 90 year olds. (John Mark Comer)
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son. (Romans 8:29)
So, which of these three could you focus on that hits closest to home for you?
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