Have you ever heard the old saying you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Well, I would like to say you can teach an old dog new tricks...it just may take him a little longer to get it right. And if we are honest, sometimes he just plain old refuses to be taught. I am that old dog much of the time.
Us old dogs don't seem to fit in with today's tech savvy society. The times "they are a changing!" rings true for the 60's generation. We grew up in much simpler times. The most technology we had at one time in our home was the TV in the family room and one of us kids served as the remote control :)! If someone wanted to contact you, they did so on their rotary dial phone and that was your only contact outside of making personal visits. When you sat down to dinner, you talked, ate and you WERE NOT allowed to answer a phone call if it happened to ring at dinner. Now a days, we have to be skilled at computers to just simply send and read an email, be smarter than our Smart Phone, and know how to function through social media! This old dog is learning but I surely haven't perfected my skills in this world of technology we reside in.
We need to be savvy about spiritual things too. Sometimes I look as if I am a real dunce. I need a 101 class or a Spiritual Disciplines for Dummies or something. I have the basic idea, but I forget how to operate day in and day out much of the time. And I don't brush up on the "manual" enough to make sure I am doing it right or refer to it before attempting to just do it on my own.
With all of that said, I can do better. Not on my own mind you, but by relying on the Holy Spirit as my guide and God's Word as my manual. If I am investing the time to learn properly in the first place, I am certainly going to catch on quicker as I am passionate about my desire to learn. Sometimes these new truths are painful and we just want to run, hide, or pretend we are too dense to catch on. Just as we must learn how to be tech savvy in order to communicate, work, play and live in today's world, we need to be even more devoted to the things of Christ Jesus.
I pray God never stops teaching me new things. I pray that I will always be willing to listen when He speaks. I pray I am not a resistant learner. And when I realize what God is saying to me, that I will be so excited to receive what is revealed and more than eager to flesh it out in daily life.
Today was a painful day of learning - learning what it means to communicate, to not make assumptions, to love, forgive, and to take the time to look at things through the eyes of Jesus.
I am on a journey to be more savvy in my walk with Jesus. And, I am so thankful.
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