Wise children

I know some really smart young people. I mean, they are intelligent. They make good grades, they do well on aptitude test, they are just generally smart. These young people excel at academia, they can work complex problems, and can calculate like nobody's business - INTELLIGENT.

I wonder, though, how wise some of these same young people are. These same super intelligent young people are likely to go out and do things that are somewhat unwise. Why? Because being smart and being wise are two different things. I know some really smart people that aren't very wise. I also know some really wise people that by some standards wouldn't be considered very smart. How does a young person become wiser?

Today's word is Proverbs 13:1, NIV, which reads, "A wise son heed's his father's instruction, but a mocker does not respond to rebukes."

No one likes to be rebuked. We don't like to be reprimanded or corrected. Yet, receiving rightful reprimand will make us wiser. And, while we started out talking about young people, this holds just as true for adults. While we may not have our parents rebuking us, our Father in Heaven still corrects us when we err. How do we receive it?

I want to be wiser. I want to be what my Father wants and desires me to be. I don't like being rebuked AT ALL. But, I want to listen to my Father, correct my failures, and become a wise child. Don't you?

Be Blessed,
Mickey T