FAITH CAPSULE: Listening to gain understanding makes one become learned.

Proverbs 13

Limitation of the relationship with God is the evidence of lack or limitation of learning from the word of God. 
Engage the word of God, listen, and understand by learning from the word of God.
Romans 15:4 informs, “For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope.”
What is it to learn in the word of God? 
Learning the word of God is to gain understanding and knowledge for instruction and experience, not to become a victim of a wicked world. However, the majority are too busy and mindful of the world instead of learning in the word of God. 
With no or limited learning gives way to repeating mistakes to become victims of evil agenda. 
For example, in the book of Judges, Israelites were distanced from God by giving to repeated sins. 
A consequence of the pain of their sin was prompting repentance for forgiveness. 
Without their learning for understanding and knowledge, returning to sin was the pattern of the Israelites. 
Today, many are giving themselves to the pattern of not learning to avoid distance from God but living in repeated sin before God.
Word of God wants us all to learn from Christ as stated, “But you have not so learned Christ.” 
Ephesians 4:17-24 documents the reason to learn:
“ This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But you have not so learned Christ, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”
Hearing and hearing (not hearing every once in a while) is the way of listening. 
It is in hearing that man will gain and learn to fear God all the days of life. Deuteronomy 4:10 speaks to all then and now, “…Gather the people to Me, and I will let them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children.’”
Today, not hearing the word of God is not learning to fear God. 
Parents are too busy to learn from the word of God and not available to teach children.
The government also aids parents by taking out the word of God from school to teach children about the fear of God. 
To despise the word of God is the route to destruction. (Proverbs 13:13)

Prayer for today: Ask for a quickening mind to learn the word of God.