Saturday, May 5, 2018

Unlearning

“I have suffered the loss of all things… that I may gain Christ” (Philippians 3:8b).

I thought this morning of the years I spent learning, accumulating facts and organizing them into a unified whole.

But aging has meant losing, forgetting, unlearning most of what I've learned.  

Can this be gain? Can it be God’s answer to my prayer: "Unite my heart to worship You”? (Psalm 86:11)

To learn, and yet to learn, while life goes by, 
So pass the student's days;  
And thus be great, and do great things, and die, 
And lie embalmed with praise.  

My work is but to lose and to forget,  
Thus small, despised to be;  
All to unlearn—this task before me set;  
Unlearn all else but Thee. —Gerhard Ter Steegen

David Roper
5.5.18








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