From Whom Do You Choose To Learn? Part 2

SERIES: Wisdom (6 of 6)
From Whom Do You Choose To Learn - Part 2

Six weeks ago I shared a riddle whose answer was “wisdom”. I’d like to end with a different sort of riddle today...one “solved” by the wisdom of King Solomon. 
   
Two women came before King Solomon with this story: One woman said, “We live together and we both have infants. This morning, I woke up and found my baby dead. Upon closer examination, I realized the other woman switched our babies after hers died. She took MY child.” The other woman replied, “She’s lying”. No witnesses. No relatives. No DNA testing. How did Solomon’s wisdom help him decide which woman was the real mother? 

You can read here how Solomon solved this real life riddle: bit.ly/SolomonAndABaby  Do you think we could still learn from Solomon’s wisdom today?

We’ve talked about wisdom and being teachable for several weeks now and shared from the book “The Key to Everything”. Today I will share the last two teachers Matt Keller suggests a teachable person will allow in his/her life.

In today’s world, it is perhaps easier than ever to allow experts to be a teacher in your life...someone Matt calls a “distant mentor”. This is someone you may never meet or interact with personally, but they can teach you through their books, teachings, podcasts, interviews or lectures. Matt summarizes it this way, “Find people who have lived your tomorrow and learn from them.”

Lastly, Matt suggests that a truly teachable person can find a way for everybody to be his/her teacher. Observe people whose lives “seem to work”, compare notes and learn how to ask questions. Look at people  whose lives don’t “seem to work”. Ask what they have learned. Observe what they missed. A wise and teachable person can learn from other’s mistakes as well as their examples.

In wrapping up thoughts about wisdom and teachability, I would like to recommend a “distant mentor” to you. When I refer to or quote King Solomon, it’s not because “he’s in the Bible.” He was literally a WISE  man we can still learn from. King Solomon wrote 29 of the 31 chapters in the book of Proverbs. May I suggest taking the next month and reading 1 chapter a day to see what you might learn from this wise man? You can start here bit.ly/ReadProverbs and just change the chapter # on the page each consecutive day.

Let me know what you think,
Pastor Rob

Sign up here to receive each week's word of encouragement delivered to your Inbox.
Links to other posts in this series: Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5