Learner

Learn

Re-learn

Un-learn

Did you know that in some languages the same word is used for learn and teach? The two concepts are dependant one upon another. As a teacher can I say that I have taught if the students have not learned anything? And can I say that they have learned anything if I cannot see some change in their behavior, way of thinking or way of believing?

How do I know if God has taught me something? If I have learned from him then there will be a change in me.

“So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”

This excerpt was taken from the Message translation of the letter to the Romans in the 12th chapter.