TODAY’S TURNING POINT WITH DR. DAVID JEREMIAH 11 JULY 2025 DAILY DEVOTIONAL MESSAGE
Read David Jeremiah 11th July 2025 Daily Devotional Friday Turning Point Devotional Message
TOPIC: Learning to Learn
Not that I speak in regard to need, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content.
Philippians 4:11
RECOMMENDED READING
1 Timothy 6:6-10
A four-year-old can play “Chopsticks” on the piano, but a fourteen-old can play Brahms’ “Lullaby.” A four- year-old can read short words, but a fourteen-year-old can read novels. A four-year-old can ride a bike without training wheels, but a fourteen-year- old can fly down a trail on a mountain bike. What is the key element in all these progressions of skill? It is learning.
But it is not just physical or mental skills that can be learned; spiritual skills can be learned as well. The Greek word for learn is the verb form of the word for disciple-a learner or pupil. Both words mean to learn by practice, instruction, and experience. Learning presupposes a lack of knowledge or skill that is later gained through practice, instruction, and experience. So when the apostle Paul said, “I have learned… to be content,” he was saying he hadn’t always been content that he had been dissatisfied, impatient, or discontent.
When you feel discontent, ask God to teach you contentment in whatever way He chooses. Learning takes time, patience, and humility.
TURNING POINT
Contentment with what we have is absolutely vital to our spiritual health.
Jerry Bridges
READ-THRU-THE-BIBLE: Ecclesiastes 5-8
Turning Point God was founded in 1982 as the broadcast ministry of Dr. David Jeremiah to deliver the unchanging Word of God to an ever-changing world