Mentors or Mistakes: How Would you Like to Learn?
It’s been said that we learn two ways; mentors or mistakes.
Think about that. We can learn from some-one or some-thing. We can be instructed, coached, motivated, helped, or guided by someone with more wisdom, more knowledge, more skill, more talent or more strength than we have ourselves. Or, we can do things our own way, in our own limited understanding, with our own limited skills or resources. When we allow ourselves to be mentored, we can avoid many mistakes that we would make otherwise.
Over many years of pastoring, I’ve watched people make a lot of mistakes in their marriage, their parenting, their finances, and their health. They made poor decisions because they refused to learn from someone who could help them. Did they learn from their mistakes? Proably so, but those are hard lessons that led to a lot of frustration and heartache.
I’ve preached a lot of sermons through the years that would have helped some people with problems they are facing, but they never showed up to hear those sermons. I’m amazed at people who say they can’t afford to buy an audio sermon series or won’t buy a book written by someone with a lot of wisdom in a certain area, but they will pay a lot more for the mistakes they will make because they refused to be mentored.
Moses mentored Joshua. Elijah mentored Elisha. Naomi mentored Ruth. Timothy and Titus learned a lot from Paul. Who are you willing to learn from? Your future is determined by who you are willing to listen to.
Pastor Bruce Freeman
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