You can know enough to win an argument and still refuse the first lesson YAHUSHA is giving you.
You can recognize an error in somebody else’s teaching while protecting an error in your own understanding. You can spend years studying and still become offended when the Word requires you to begin again.
Beloved, being corrected does not mean the years were wasted. Refusing truth because of how long you believed otherwise will waste what comes next.
YAHUAH is calling His people to restoration. That requires a heart willing to be taught. We cannot ask Him to restore what was lost while deciding in advance that nothing we have learned may be examined.
YAHUSHA Placed a Child Before Ambitious Disciples
In Matthew 18, the disciples asked who was greatest in the kingdom of heaven. YAHUSHA answered by calling a little child into their midst.
“Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
Then He identified the posture He was requiring:
“Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
— Matthew 18:4, KJV
They were asking about position. He addressed their need to humble themselves.
A child in that moment was not presenting credentials or competing for authority. YAHUSHA made that lowly place the answer to their argument about greatness. Before they could rightly think about leading, they needed to receive His correction.
We must hear that ourselves. Years in the walk, a platform, a title, a following, or an ability to quote Scripture do not place us beyond instruction. A person who cannot be corrected has made being recognized as knowledgeable more important than becoming faithful.
Begin With the Foundation
“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is YAHUSHA Ha’Mashiach.”
— Qorintiym Ri’shon (1 Corinthians) 3:11, KJV with restored Name and title
Our understanding must be built upon YAHUSHA. A favorite teacher cannot carry that weight. Neither can inherited customs, personal experiences, or the satisfaction of belonging to a group that believes it has every answer.
Unlearning begins when we allow the Word to examine what we have accepted. Relearning begins when we patiently receive what the Word actually teaches and put it into practice.
This does not require calling every previous lesson false. It requires surrendering the demand that every previous lesson must remain untouched.
Ask yourself: If Scripture corrects something I have publicly defended, will I obey it? If understanding requires slower study than I expected, will I remain? If I must tell someone, “I taught that incorrectly,” will truth matter more than my embarrassment?
Those questions reach the foundation beneath our confidence.
A Teachable Heart Still Tests What It Hears
Becoming as a child does not mean allowing people to think for you. Humility before YAHUAH does not require agreement with every confident speaker.
The Bereans received the word readily and searched the Scriptures daily to see whether the things they heard were so (Acts 17:11). Receptiveness and examination belonged together.
Do not reject instruction simply because it is unfamiliar. Do not accept it simply because it is unfamiliar, either. Open the passage. Read what comes before and after it. Examine whether a conclusion follows from the text. Allow clear Scripture to govern what is difficult.
A teacher who demands your agreement while discouraging examination is asking for something different from the obedience Scripture commends.
Let the Ruach Ha’Qudash lead you as you study. Bring your questions into palal. Be honest about what you understand and what you are still learning. You do not have to manufacture certainty to appear spiritually mature.
Even a Gifted Teacher Needed Further Instruction
Acts 18 describes Apollos as eloquent and mighty in the Scriptures. He taught diligently, yet his understanding was incomplete. Aquila and Priscilla heard him, took him aside, and explained the way more accurately.
The account does not end with his usefulness destroyed. He went on to help the believers and demonstrate from Scripture that YAHUSHA is Ha’Mashiach (Acts 18:24–28).
There is instruction here for the learner and the teacher.
Being gifted does not mean we have finished learning. Seeing a gap in another person’s understanding does not give us permission to humiliate them. Aquila and Priscilla supplied what was lacking. Their intervention served the work of truth.
Can you receive further instruction without treating the person bringing it as an enemy? Can you help somebody understand more accurately without making their mistake a platform for your own importance?
YAHUAH’s people need both forms of humility.
Learning More Must Change How We Walk
Sirach gives this searching description of wisdom:
“An attentive ear is the desire of a wise man.”
Wisdom continues listening. It has not become so impressed with its own voice that it has lost the ability to hear.
The supporting witness of the Testament of Lauy also joins learning to conduct:
“If a man teach these things and do them, he shall be enthroned with kings.”
— Testament of Lauy (Levi), chapter 13, public-domain English translation
The surrounding passage urges parents to teach their children, cultivate understanding, and work righteousness. Instruction is meant to shape a life.
If our study produces more arguments while our household receives less patience, something needs examination. If we are eager to correct names and terms but unwilling to correct deceit, cruelty, or dishonesty in our own conduct, we have resisted the work the Word must do within us.
Restoration reaches the tongue, the understanding, and the daily walk. Let what you learn bring your speech, decisions, relationships, and responsibilities into greater obedience before YAHUAH.
Watch the Teaching
Whatever It Takes — Natsarym of YAHUSHA
This teaching calls us to surrender familiar understanding and receive correction when obedience to YAHUAH requires us to change.
Begin Again Where You Actually Are
Some people need to return to daily Scripture reading. Others need to revisit a passage they have repeated for years without carefully reading it. Some need to learn foundational terms, letters, or patterns slowly before attempting to teach them.
There is no shame in beginning with the first lesson.
If you are restoring your study of the Abaryt tongue, give the foundations their proper time. Learn to recognize the letters. Practice writing them. Review what you cannot yet recall. Ask questions. A page of patient practice may serve you better than another argument about material you have not studied.
The same humility belongs in every part of the walk. Do not despise the simple act of obedience because you wanted a more impressive assignment.
Choose one belief or practice that needs honest examination. Write down what you currently believe and the Scripture you think supports it. Read the full passage. Separate the words of the text from the assumptions you brought to it. Seek careful instruction where you need help.
Then respond to what becomes clear. If you were mistaken, acknowledge it. If you misled someone, correct what you told them. If a question remains unresolved, keep studying without presenting your uncertainty as settled truth.
Tashubah becomes visible when the direction changes.
Stay Willing to Be Taught
YAHUAH does not need us to defend an image of knowing everything. He requires truth in the inward parts.
You can be experienced and still listen. You can teach and still learn. You can recognize what has been stripped away from our people and still admit that restoring it requires diligence, patience, and correction.
Do not let the fear of looking like a beginner keep you bound to what needs to change.
Come before YAHUAH with open Scriptures and a surrendered heart. Let YAHUSHA remain the foundation. Receive the lesson He is placing before you, and obey it.
Closing Palal
YAHUAH, You are my Aluah. Search the places where I have confused familiarity with truth and confidence with understanding. Reveal where I have defended an error because I feared embarrassment or wanted to remain important in the eyes of others.
Give me a teachable heart. Teach me to receive correction, examine what I hear, and handle Your Word faithfully. Remove the pride that refuses a simple lesson. Give me patience to learn what I do not yet understand and courage to correct what I have taught wrongly.
Let YAHUSHA be the foundation of my understanding and my daily walk. Lead me by the Ruach Ha’Qudash. Restore what has been lost, establish what is true, and let every lesson bear the fruit of obedience in my home and among Your people.
I surrender my need to appear finished. Keep me willing to hear, willing to learn, and willing to change, in the name and authority of YAHUSHA Ha’Mashiach, Aman,
