Proverbs 1:1-7

Proverbs 1:1-7
English Standard Version (ESV)

  Graduation is a glorious day!  No more tests, no more assigned readings, no more lectures.  The achievement of school has passed, and greater things await.
  Proverbs offers us a helpful reminder -- if we are wise, we recognize that our learning doesn't stop.  If we want to continue to grow as Christians, it's vital to continue to find a place where we can learn.  We need to find Christians willing to teach us, and we need to be humble enough to admit our need to learn.  Growth only happens when we gather with people more mature than we are, and they pour into us, just as we should be pouring into other Christians.  To be wise means we recognize how little we know.
  It's not very popular to admit that you don't know everything.  It seems like our political landscape is filled with people who grow in stature the more brash they are -- to engage in humble conversation and engage from a position of vulnerability isn't wildly popular right now.  So it's a different way -- a different lifestyle.  What's it mean for you to continue to learn, to continue to grow in faith?