I received an email last night from one of our ladies named Marian. She is ninety-four years old and sharp as a tac. She and her daughter live together. She works at a general store within her facility and she emails me almost weekly. Her prayer list grows longer consistently because she hasn’t removed anyone in decades.
So I get this email from her thanking me for the morning message. She says I taught her some things that she had never known or heard before. Now mind you, she has been saved most of her life, faithful to church every week and even served as a missionary for numbers of years in South America. And I taught her something.
How could I? I am less than half her age. I have less than half her life experience. I have never served Jesus on a foreign field. Yet, I taught her something.
Here is the key. The key isn’t that I have anything to teach. The key is that Marian is always looking to learn. She is hungry for knowledge, understanding and wisdom. She keeps her eyes and ears open and seeks truth.
That’s why Marian has made it to ninety-four and there seems to be no stopping her now.
I heard a man say once that everyone knows something I do not know. I must probe until I find it. Hence, all men are my teachers.
Sure beats being a know it all.
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