Proverbs 15:5 A fool despises his father’s instruction, but he who receives correction is prudent.
Ok, so we are not all perfect – but I guess you may have worked that one out already, especially when you look at me! Seriously though, we do make mistakes and we do have to take time out to say we are sorry.
But if we spurn the people who point out our mistakes or want to show us the right way of doing things, we are saying to them that we don’t care about doing things right or fixing mistakes – basically we are telling them that we are stupid because we don’t want to learn!
God gave us the bible so that we could spot our mistakes. Once we do that and move on, we will be able to do a whole lot more rather than breaking things continually…