Guidance for Life

Joshua had Moses. Elisha walked with Elijah. Esther heeded the voice of Mordecai. The disciples followed Jesus. Timothy trained under Paul. In the Bible we can find countless examples of people who were brought into greatness by following the leadership of a great mentor.

Society is being geared to be more self-sufficient, self-discovering, and self-teaching. We like to be independent and figure things out on our own. If we don’t know something, we google it. If we have issues, we research possible solutions on our own. We want to have the credit for our success alone.

However, I believe that the mentor-mentee relationship is still relevant today. There are countless things that other people can show us that can help us to succeed in our endeavors. Someone has already been down the path that we are trying to embark on. There is something in another person's experience that can't be relayed in Wikipedia. Even if God has blessed us with something entirely new, something no one's ever done, there is still wisdom that one can glean from another human being.

All of us have the call of God on our lives, and we all want to please Him in fulfilling that mandate. Still, we should take some time to pray and ask the Lord to send us mentors who can help us to develop in our gifts and evade some mistakes we might otherwise make.

In the same manner, don’t be so selfish with all the knowledge that you’ve got inside of you! Open up your mouth, give up a little bit of your time, seek out someone who’s in need, and be a mentor yourself. We all have an experience, and from that experience we’ve gained some knowledge.

Give back to someone who’s coming up behind you. Open up to the one in front of you. And we all can help each other to become better people in this world.

Verse of the Day: Tune your ears to wisdom, and concentrate on understanding. Cry out for insight,
and ask for understanding. Search for them as you would for silver; seek them like hidden treasures. Proverbs 2:2-4