In chapter Six of PRIMAL Mark Batterson uses a quote from Olviver Wendell Holmes to start this chapter. "A mind stretched by a new idea never returns to its original shape".
Why is it that we tend to look back and try to repeat our actions or try to duplicate a scenario verses letting us experience new ideas and scenarios?
God has created us with the capacity to keep learning until the day we die. And that isn't something we should take for granted. It wasn't until I was elected to my local school board that I realized that I need to be a life long learner. And it is not about being taught or having a good teacher that is most important it is about me developing as a good learner and having a desire to know more.
For most people somewhere along the way we stop living out of imagination or learner mode and start living out of memories. We stop creating the future and start repeating the past.
The true litmus test of spiritual maturity isn't how much you know. It's knowing how much you don't know. It's coming to terms with the fact that God is not an object of knowledge as much as He is a cause of wonder. And that sanctified sense of wonder fuels a holy curiosity to keep learning more about God.
So where is your wonder meter? Think you know it all or do you realize you have so much more to learn?
More later on this chapter.....
Pastor John
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