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By the time most people are in their mid-thirties they have stopped acquiring any new skills or attitudes. Does that shock you? Stop and think: how long has it been since you acquired a new skill? How many new attitudes (like the 'can do' attitude) have you adopted lately? How bound are you to mechanical performance? Do you feel compelled to approach a problem the same way every time? Does a new idea light your fire, or make you retreat into your shell? Are you addicted to predictability?

Solomon says 'Above all and before all, do this - get wisdom!' (Proverbs 4:7) Chuck Swindoll says, 'Living and learning go hand in hand, just like existing and expiring. The same hours and minutes that capture the wonder of a child deepen the rut of an adult. To them learning is natural; to us it is a nuisance.' Which camp do you belong in?

Remember Caleb? At eighty-five he was still growing and grabbing the future (see Joshua 14:12). When he should have been in comfortable retirement, he was out fighting giants and claiming mountains. While his friends were yawning, he was yearning. Every time the sun came up it was a new adventure for him. God says 'Enlarge the place of your tent...do not hold back; lengthen your cords, strengthen your stakes, for you will spread out to the right hand and to the left' (Isaiah 54:2-3). Hello! That is you He is talking to!

Prayer
Heavenly Father, help me never to stop learning new and exciting things so that I can use all that you have gifted me to be to the fullest to further your Kingdom in whatever position you have called me to serve. In Jesus’ Name, Amen