I don’t know how many times in life I’ve looked at myself and wondered what I was doing? How in the world did I ever get there? I don’t know when I first decided to try new things. Go to new places. Have new experiences. Maybe get in over my head.
Some of that attitude works its way out in being open to new ideas. New ways of looking at things. I was discussing Romans yesterday and how I was trying to explain the logic of spiritual development that Paul was using when someone wanted to jump in and fixate on his favorite link of the chain. It was as though he thought his link was the entire chain. This was the time for a pause. To recognize what was happening and to ask God for a teaching moment.
We’ve all the the experience of reading a familiar passage as if for the first time–“I didn’t realize that was in there!” We have to approach reading–and life–with that openness. With the child’s expectation of being surprised by learning something new.
Go ahead. Try something new. Open yourself up to learn something today.
Faith Venture 
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