How do we respond to our coach’s correction? How do we react when a teammate tells us our technique needs improvement? The answers could reveal a lot about our character.
How deeply impressed would we be by 100 blows to our back? Pretty deeply I suppose. For athletes this may be 100 laps around the gym floor. I hope it wouldn’t take 100 to make an impression. For fools it seems that it takes 100 blows to make a good impression. For people of understanding, it takes something else.
Scripture states that a rebuke makes a greater impression on a person of understanding than running 100 laps would. One correction to a wise person is of greater effect than doing 100 up-downs. One closed-door conference with the coach goes deeper into the smart player than 100 trips up and down the bleachers.
