So this morning I was reading the Proverb for the day.
In a chapter filled with great wisdom, this one stood up and grabbed me.
Verse 27
Cease listening to instruction, my son,
And you will stray from the words of knowledge.
What a warning!
What can we observe?
Listening is a choice.
Listening is an action that must be sustained.
Listening is an activity that at times I will feel like ceasing.
I might grow tired in it, sick of it, weak from it, and I will want to cease.
I must resist that with a sustained commitment to listen.
Because if I drift from listening, disastrous consequences will follow.