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by Bob and Debby Gass
Learn from Experience (3)
April 29, 2010
‘...get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you...’ Proverbs 4:7-8 NKJV
When it comes to experience: we all experience more than we understand. Baseball player Earl Wilson said, ‘Experience enables you to recognise the mistake when you make it again.’ Let’s face it-too much happens to us in life for us to be able to understand all of it. No matter how smart we are, our understanding will never catch up with our experience. So we must make the most of what we can understand. At the end of each day we should ask, ‘What have I learned today?’ Our attitude towards unplanned and unpleasant experiences determines our growth. Steve Penny, head of S4 Leadership Network in Australia, observed, ‘Life is full of unforeseen detours. Consequences happen which seem to completely cut across our plans. Learn to turn your detours into delights. Treat them as special excursions and learning tours. Don’t fight them or you will never learn their purpose. Enjoy the moments, and pretty soon you will be back on track again, probably wiser and stronger because of your little detour.’ Lack of experience is costly. Our greatest ignorance is not of what we have yet to learn, but of how little we really know. Harry Golden remarked, ‘The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It’s just that no one has ever told him about Thanksgiving.’ You can’t avoid making mistakes but you can limit them, grow through them, and not keep making the same ones.
SoulFood: Num 8-10, Mark 5:21-30, Ps 35, Pr 10:28-29
The Word for Today is authored by Bob and Debby Gass and published under licence from UCB International Copyright © 2010
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