Why are we so afraid to learn?  We sit in class, and we close off our ears to the things that could actually serve to help us.  I know that there are many things we never seem to have a use for, but they expand our horizons none the less.  It is not so much this that I have a problem with, but the problem is when we let this carry over into our spiritual life.  Everytime we start to learn something we seem to be in a situation that we can't help but let slap us in the face.  It's almost like God has to crush our spirits to get us to listen to Him.  Don't you know He hates having to do that?  Think about the way He tries to speak to us every day.  We cut Him off and tell Him that we will have time for him tommorow.  The problem is, tommorrow never comes.  This is today, we can't live in tommorrow, and nothing will ever happen as long as God asks us nicely.  We are not promised another day.  Jesus admonishes those who brag about what they will do tommorrow.  So why does He slap us in the face?  Because we are idiotic humans.  If we would only listen, our lives would be as He would want them to be, and He wouldn't have to do something He hates to do.  Punish us.

In Christ,
Zach McCain