Many of us are getting on in years...(eh hemm), we are starting to gray and to wrinkle...(ugh), we are no longer spring chickens...darn it we are old! Now just because my body has been walking around on this earth for nearly 50 years, does not mean that my attitude is old...I love to learn new things!

No matter how young you are, if you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. Learning and maturing are a lot about your attitude. Many immigrants who are older, come to America and have a wonderful attitude about learning. They cherish the new customs and language and honor the government and rules of this society. As a matter of fact, they seem to be more willing to try to learn than those who were born and raised here. Ths is because they have the desire to learn.

I know poeple who are just determined to learn. They put everything they have into it...that's the way that I feel about going to Malawi...that's how I feel about Jesus...that's how I feel about living as an obedient disciple in God's kingdom. I want to learn God's ways of doing things, and no one can stop me. But I look around and see so many Christians that don't even know the Lord, they don't know His ways...they go to church on Sunday mornings and as they drive away from the building they turn their hearts back to the world again until the next Sunday.

I also know brand new Christians who are older but have just received Christ as their Lord and Savior and...like me, they are determined to learn, and equally determined to unlearn the ways that they had been living their lives before. It takes an attitude of eagerness and gratefulness to relearn how to live your life...it takes the realization of who Jesus is and what He has done for you!

Currently I work with a woman named Polly. Polly is 91 years old. She has been formed and cemented into  a person who is burdened by worry, anxiety and the need to be in control. She is judgemental and prejudice and bitter....Polly needs to learn how to learn! ( Jesus loves Polly and wants her to be free.)

God put me in Polly's life to help her unlearn a lifetime of habits and hang-ups...it can be challenging to say the least, but there have been many pivitol moments over the years where God has pointed out weak places in the walls surrounding her heart and given me the words of truth to apply pressure to those places...breaches in her walls have begun and piles of ancient stones lay broken and strewn upon the ground around her...God can bring to life this heart that appears too hard to be renewed, and he has sent me to share His Word to do the job. God's Word has power to do what He desires:

"As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and acheive the purpose for which I sent it." - Isaiah 55:10-11

When I share God's word with Polly, (this requires that I know God's word so that I can share it) It's truth and power go to work...and she can learn new things...the old can die and the new come to life, even at 91 years old! We can learn to walk with Christ if our attitude is right. If Polly believes the truth that I share with her, the Holy Spirit begins to convict her, and Polly repents and then asks God to help her change.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come. The old has gone, the new is here!" - 2Cor 5:17
It has been amazing to see how each time that I put God's truth out there, at the moment when it needs to arrive (this happens by the prompting of the Holy Spirit), that the truth indeed sets her free. We can relearn how to live if we are determined to do so...learning requires diligence and desire and intrest...no one can make someone want to learn. It has to come from their own heart...it must be their desire. When it is, nothing or no one can stop them!

So today I challenge you to go out and learn something new...no matter how old you are, or young you feel...go and learn something...If I may, I would like to suggest that you try learning something about Jesus, about who He was and why God sent Him here...to set you free to learn His ways and to have an abundant life....(You can find a bible in any church, library, or bookstore so even if you don't have one that is not an excuse...you can go online...you are already on the computer or your phone or your tablet ...and read about Jesus, there really is no reason not to, unless it's that you don't have the desire...unless your heart is too stoney and crusty...So be young at heart, go learn yourself something new, and have a glorious day!

"For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." - John 3:16