The Revelation of Jesus, with Rick Sterling

The Hubris of Stubborness~ 

Have you ever experienced looking at your gas guage in your car and saying to yourself, "I'll get gas on the way home"? And when you get in the car to go home you are so fixated on getting away from work, getting home and relaxing that you forget the promise you made to yourself to get gas; and you run out a half-mile from your driveway.

Or you have to make a trip to the grocery, and your wife says that she needs a few items, and you think to yourself, "I'll remember it, I don't need to write it down"? And when you get to the store you promptly forget one of those items because you were to stubborn to take a few seconds to make a list.

We have all experience this. It is not the result of malicious intent. It is simply that we believe that we are better than we really are at keeping track of all those things that invade our ongoing thoughts.

When we believe that we know all that we need to know about anything, we remove our ability to learn anything new from the equation of our lives. The hubris of stubborness is a chronic problem of identity; we believe that what we believe is correct, and believe we don't need to know anything else to accomplish a task.

'Because you say, "I am rich, and have become wealthy, and have need of nothing," and you do not know that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked," Rev. 3:17.

As much as we would like to believe it, we (all of us) are in some things still at the first stage of learning; We don't know what we don't know. And this is a very dangerous place to be, because this 'not knowing what we don't know' can rear up and bite us more quickly than a rattlesnake in the brush. 

Little children don't have this problem. Become as a little child, and learn Truth