Jeremiah 32:33
They turned their backs to me and not their faces; though I taught them again and again they would not listen or respond to discipline.

It's just about that time again when the busses will roll out before the students do and another year of homework, tests and reading will begin. Many students will moan and many more parents will not. And it all begs the question, doesn't it? "What's the point of learning?"

The answer became clear yesterday as we were eating breakfast before my sons left for school (they do the year round thing so they get the jumpstart on school every year). Parker, whom we discovered a few weeks ago has a great dimple, turned to Mommy and asked her if he still had that - as he put it - "knuckle thing?" Of course, she had to answer without laughing (but not me - I was ROTFL!) that it was called a dimple, not a knuckle thing. It was great, but it got better once Wendy left the room. Parker, who was quite confused at this point, looked at me with a curious face and said, "A dunkle??" The little guy got no love from me as I continued to ROTFL (and that doesn't stand for Reek Of Tuesday's Fermented Lunch)!

It did dawn on me, though, how important it is to teach. We would never want Parker to grow up believeing that he had a dunkle or a knuckle thing. Can you imagine him on a date looking across the table into the eyes of the woman he's going to marry and asking her, "Do you like my dunkle?" That's it! Cancel the caterer, the flowers and the soloists! Wedding is off. We teach people so that they can be equipped for life and for faith. And we need to be taught for the same reasons. What is Parker did what this verse says? What if he turned his back to us and wouldn't listen? There would be many embarrassing days ahead for him and many fruitless arguments with well-meaning people about how "it's a dunkle, a dunkle I tell you!"

What lies ahead of you that you don't know about it? Only God knows. And that's why He's the best teacher you and I could ever have.

Are you ready to learn?