TRAINABLE
21st December 2018
READ: Proverbs 13:18
“A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.” - Proverbs 29:19
Many people read about new and wonderful things they must experience, by being coached, indoctrinated and infused with new ways, new knowledge and new practices. This is where most people get off the train. Pride always cuts short the ministry because humility is a prerequisite for entering the doors of kingdom ministry. They cannot bend down and accept to do the things that are necessary for a change to come.
Pride is what makes you unable to be a trainable servant. The only thing required of you by your master may be openness and cleanliness.
On the other hand, you may work somewhere and the most important thing to your master may be punctuality. If you cannot bend over and be tutored in that particular area of eccentricity you will never flourish there. I have worked with many untrainable people who eventually did not continue working with me. I used to think there was something wrong with me. But as the years have gone by, I found out that I was dealing with the simple problem of pride. I could not discipline and instruct these people in the way that would be pleasing to my ministry.
Most of them felt they were experts in their field of endeavour and would not listen to the one who was employing them. Some of them grumbled behind my back and criticised my ideas. They were simply not servants! Their pride cost them their jobs. Their inflexibility cut short their God-given opportunities and relationships with me. How sad! May God help us to be servants and to be adaptable and trainable.
