Think about your classroom days, including university classrooms. As you look around the class, you will find some students listening carefully and others having difficulty paying attention. Generally the good listeners got good grades and succeeded, but the poor listeners did not.
Life can be like the classroom. Most of the time life is teaching us some lesson. We mature and gain wisdom when we listen carefully to the lesson and apply truth to our lives. If we fail to learn from life’s lessons, we will surely suffer unwanted consequences as we are doomed to repeat our failures.
Luke 8:18 says, “Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.” We must listen carefully and apply wisdom and truth to our lives. If we listen to the wisdom of God’s Word, trusted advisors, godly mentors, and the Holy Spirit, then we will mature into godly men and women who bear much fruit. But if we don’t listen carefully to such wisdom and truth, even what we think we know will be fruitless and of no benefit.
Reluctant Retiree 