I have a problem.
I am useless at remembering names. Some of my closest friends were those who were most patience in my early days of asking their names, asking if we had met before (for the 4th time) or just giving them those stock-standard, neutral, i-don't-remember-your-name-but-i-will-make-small-talk-anyway kind of greetings...
It seems God knows me.
When He wants to get a message across, he doesn't just give it to me 3 times like He seems to do with most people. He bombards me from all directions with the message until I am beaten into submission to free up limited brain capacity to remember the message.
He is doing that now.
"All leaders are learners, and the moment you stop learning, you stop reading" - Rick Warren (www.rickwarren.com)
No matter what I read at the moment, I keep getting reminded that I need to be reading. Lucky I took the iniative to read in the first place, or I would have never known.
Donald Miller (donmilleris.com) suggests in his book "To own a dragon" that we read books to learn because in doing so we experience something like the pleasure God felt in the act of creation. We discover His handiworks with Him.
So not only does reading and learning get us to a place where we can read effectively, it is a medium through which God can reveal a ton of stuff to us.
As Christians, it seems imperative that we are committed to lifelong learning. We need to take iniative for our own growth by actively studying the Bible, as well as reading as much about the world (*God's creation I believe) as possible.
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