Every time I give a personal update something I always say is how much God is teaching me. Which is funny because something God has taught me, is that teach-ability is actually a great attitude to have.
There is no way we can come to a place in our lives where we will say I have no more to learn. Even when I personally have come to the end of a season where God has taught me something specific, I by no means have actually mastered that specific thing. For an example lets say trusting God.
I have gone through seasons where I have been stretched and had no other option other than to trust in God, but now I find myself in another season where God is teaching me other new things about him and about myself but trust is still something I am learning how to maintain.
Trust in God must be constant. Being human I'm not sure I will ever come to the point where I can perfectly maintain my ability to trust in God in all circumstances, because the truth is, as life goes on circumstances change. Therefore our knowledge of how to put our trust in God changes too because it looks different. That's why I cannot come into a new season with new circumstances thinking I know how to fully trust in God, I have to humble myself and put on an attitude of teach-ability. At least this has been my choice, I've chosen to believe constant trust in God is hugely important, and I've chosen to allow God to teach me how to trust him in each new situation I face.
No its not easy at all, and yes I fail all the time, but I am choosing not to let that change the fact that I will always go back putting my trust in God. If I didn't I would probably sit in my failure and never move on, actually I've done that before and it wasted so much time. Now I know I will never stop learning and I will probably never stop failing at something or another, but that is where a lot of the teaching happens is in my failures as long as I can maintain an attitude of teach-ability. It also helps to put hope in God rather than in the world because God is where true Joy is coming from no matter what life throws at me. So no matter the circumstance I can have joy because my hope is in God and He never fails me, He never has, and He never will.
~ Emily