Sons Are Free to Learn

Sons Are Free to Learn. Spiritual orphans struggle to be teachable. Sons embrace the vulnerability to learn.

It is often quite challenging to stay open to new learning. This post will dig in to how sons develop this trait.

This is a follow up to an article I wrote two weeks ago, “Meekness is the Pass Key”.

Arthur Burk wrote an article on “Malabsorption”. It is like the Bible verse about ever learning but never coming to a knowledge of the truth. It is frustrating to have been a Christian for a long time and not realize any growth to speak of. Along with meekness being a key, I believe shame can also be a major factor.

Openness to be taught as well as diligence to learn and implement is an area that God has had to work on in me for a long time. It felt shameful not to know things and I was very unrealistic in my view of what it actually took to learn something. Here’s a quote that may shed some light for some people,

“To be vulnerable to new learning, to receive something from another, somehow seems to feel so insecure or touches such a sensitive shame nerve that it cannot be tolerated.” Facing Shame, Fossum & Mason

For a long time it was not okay for me not to know something, it could get me hurt. Not knowing how to chop wood right or fix something my dad asked me to or even to be quiet at the right time could bring my dad’s wrath.

Experiencing the Father’s love can bring freedom to risk, to try, fail, get back up again. There is a freedom to not have to live by a rigid rule system that puts everything in a box including my growth.