Teachable Moments

Do you remember sitting in a class you hated at school, just staring at the clock counting down the minutes? I do. Because you hate it so much you may not learn much. (This is why review tests in school are imlortant.) That can be the problem with sitting someone down and trying to teach them something specific.

Now before we go too far let me just put in a disclaimer. I'm not writing against school or scheduled learning times or anything like that. I'm not even writing about the education we get at school or the subjects we study there. I'm writing about life lessons.

My older brother is two years older then me. And he's always had a knack for finding these teachable moments in life in the midst of just everyday activities. For instance we were driving to or from youth group one night, he was driving and I didn't have my license yet. It was well after dark and he started explaining to me how to keep from being blinded by oncoming headlights. You don't look at the oncoming car but focus your attention on the fog line so you stay in your lane without ruining your night vision.

To this day when I'm driving at night I still think about him teaching me that when we were teenagers. He always did stuff like that, took those random, everyday moments and used them to teach me something important.

God's like that too. If we're paying attention we can find His lessons and reminders of His love in everything you do. Walking down the street and seeing a flower growing up in the sidewalk cracks might remind you that He can turn even the most broken situations and plant something beautiful in the ruins.

There's lessons all around us, every day God uses our lives and decisions to present us with teachable moments, moments that He wants to teach us something and moments that He offers us to teach someone else. But if we're not paying attention we miss those moments all together.

What's God teaching you today? Or what is He giving you the opportunity to teach someone else?