One teaches - two learn

All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It corrects us when we are wrong and teaches us to do what is right. (2 Timothy 3:16)

Robert Half told us that 'when one teaches, two learn.' I couldn't agree more! In order to teach, one must learn first what one is teaching, but within the teaching, additional learning actually occurs. It is kind of like a tiny embryo of knowledge begins to break into two, then four, and so on. Half also put a question out there for us to consider today: "When your future arrives, will you blame your past?" Too many times, we blame our past, but did we have the opportunity to learn from whatever it was in our past that we blame today and just didn't heed that opportunity?

If you ever get into the scripture and find there is 'new meaning' in a passage you have likely read time and time again, you are just seeing it from today's perspective. The scripture didn't change - your perspective did! The 'relevance' of the scripture is based upon the issues you are encountering at this moment. If you didn't realize it, you were learning something from that passage with each time your present perspective changed. What you 'learned' in an earlier season is not 'unlearned', it is 'added to' by your present season. Scripture is powerful that way - it teaches those who are willing to learn.

The past can be blamed for a bunch of stuff, but your present isn't going to benefit from blaming something or someone in the past for your present perspective. Instead of playing the 'blame game', embrace your present perspective, take it to Jesus, get his perspective on the matter and then let the learning begin. One teaches, two learn. Take what you have learned and use it to help another. In so doing, you are using the knowledge you have received to create a new perspective in someone else's life. Sadly, some feel what they learn at the feet of Jesus is 'just for them', but in truth, God's plan was always to have one learn, then teach, then learn again. 

Go out and make disciples of all men - that is one learning, then teaching, then coming back to learn again. Sometimes our greatest learning comes in those times when we stop blaming the past and take responsibility for the present. Just sayin!