When I was a rising senior in high school, my parents wanted me to drop the trumpet and start piano lessons. But I was not happy with that idea. I told them, “This is my senior year, and I am in all-county band. I have worked hard for nine years and now I have made it to first chair trumpet. I just want to play the trumpet.” And so they let me. But since then, I have wished over and over again that I would have taken piano lessons. I took piano in college but was too busy to devote the time needed to practice. I should have listened to my parents. Hey, are you the same way? Do you not take the advice of others? Do you make a decision without asking older or wiser people in your life? Hey, even as an older person myself, I still should seek advice from wiser folk (not many are older). Peter was impetuous and never asked advice of anyone. But in his later life, he said in I Peter 5:5, “Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.” Peter had learned his lesson in humility. And I have learned my lesson in humility too. Well … actually … I am still learning my lesson in humility. How about you?
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