Relearning our lessons the hard way
Have you ever encouraged someone with biblical advice, and the next day you need someone to tell you the very same thing?
Or, have you learned a lesson through hardship, then another hardship comes, and you realize you never truly learned the lesson the first time?
I have. On both counts.
Recently, I was slammed with an unexpected bout of stress. So, I reread a post I wrote about fear and anxiety, and it's like someone else had written it. It told me exactly what I need to hear – exactly what I had forgotten.
This process of being reminded has helped me so many times. When I learn something powerful through Scripture or another book, I try to highlight it or record it somewhere for later reference. If you keep a journal, you've probably experienced the same thing.
What have you learned recently? If you can't think of anything significant, rewind to the last time you suffered. What did God show you? Did you write it down somewhere, like a journal or in the margin of your Bible?
Sometimes I'm impacted by a sermon. Or just reading the Word or praying. Or by someone older and wiser. Biblical wisdom can come from many different directions.
May the Lord bless you with knowledge and the wisdom you need for whatever life is throwing at you.
May he build your faith, comfort you, provide and protect. And may you remember the past lessons he has graciously taught you.
Relearning,
Tom Harper
Founder, BiblicalLeadership.com
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 | Tom Harper is publisher of BiblicalLeadership.com and executive chairman of Networld Media Group, a business-to-business publisher and event producer. He has written five books, including Servant Leader Strong: Uniting Biblical Wisdom and High-Performance Leadership (DeepWater Books, 2019) as well as the Christian business fable Through Colored Glasses and its sequel Inner Threat (DeepWater, 2022). Learn More » |
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