Hello Friends,

Sometimes a good message passes you by just because you weren't at the right place at the right time to hear it . . . No worries, I am transferring some things to this site so that you can have access to the information that will help your grow.  My purpose is to help change minds about the way they see this life.  I wish you the best during your journey.  This post is about learning from your experiences.  You can access the full post by clicking this link HERE.  Enjoy!

I am so glad that we have spiritual leaders that can help us get through this life.  Our leaders are meant to help us understand God's word and to help us put it to practice.  Yesterday, the preacher preached about how experience is designed to teach us wisdom.  We go through the things that we go through so that we can learn from the choices that we make. 

 

There are all types of things going on around us.  So many triggers, stimuli, and voices telling us what to do and where to go.  I'm not sure if you realize it or not, but we often listen to the wrong voice, the wrong opinions, and the wrong advice.  Now, when we make the decisions that we ought not make, these are the choices that make our life harder.  Sometimes we make decisions that seem like the best because it was the easy one to make in the present.  We can  find, through time,  that those easy/ comfortable decisions lead to a harder life in the future.

 

So, how do we keep track of all of our good choices, and all of our bad ones?  Better yet, what is the best way to learn from our failures in life?

 

I take note of a great motivational speaker, Jim Rohn, who taught not to trust your mind, but to take written notes of good ideas and things that you have learned.  A great way to remember things is to write them down and review them later for insight. He suggest that you keep a journal.

 

This book was not meant to be a bunch of rules to follow.  It was not supposed to be pushy, bossy, or religious. The bible is a book of help us.  I am in love with it's wisdom.  I thank God for it's wisdom.  And I pray that I understand it more and more as I spend more and more time in it.

 

This week, I am reading Job.  Job was a guy who was just having a really hard time in life all of the sudden.  He lost his riches, his children, and his health.  He didn't do anything wrong really, he was a righteous man.  He tried his best to live right.  So why did God allow for Job to get beat up so bad?  Why did God allow for Job's wife to leave him at his lowest point, and have his so called friends accuse him of being a low down dirty, good for nothing, piece of human being?

 

Why do bad things happen to good people?

 

#1 So that we can learn more about ourselves

#2 So that our perspective changes

#3 So that we gain insight to see opportunity for a better life

#4 So that we continue to grow

 

This is life you guys.  We learn. We get to low points so that our perspective changes about what a "good life" really is.  I know for me, it took a lot of hurtful things to happen to me before I could even see the type of patterns and situations I put myself in.  I had to be at my worst to see what kind of people I was really surrounding my self with.  I had to be at my lowest to start looking at my life for what it was, placing no blame on anyone else, but sincerely asking myself: What can I do to change my situation?

 

Surely, my life started to reshape it self into something new, into something different and into something better.  Now my job is to remember what has made it better, and what will keep me moving forward to new things in the future. Remember from past post I have taught;  our purpose is to grow.  This is a pattern with God.  The purpose of his design always requires growth.  However, in order to grow, the conditions have to be right.  Don't be worried about the trouble that is all around you.  The Lord is preparing the conditions for your growth. 

 

Friends, the trouble and trying circumstances that meet you in life are always signs that there are doors opening around you.  Your open door is a path to new opportunity.  I encourage you not to be safe and stay where you are, but I encourage you to take a step into something better.  Do it different this time.  We don't have to fail the same way over and over.  Fail different and gain the wisdom that this life is supposed to teach you.  

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Failure Brings Wisdom,

Trouble Brings Opportunity

 

 

While reflecting I understand how out of the normal my writing this blog is, especially to the Church.  I didn't realize that the Lord was leading me out of the conformity and religious attitudes of my past church upbringing.  While church is a good model to practice fellowship and studying the word; this is not every persons language and should not be forced as the only way to build a relationship with the Lord.  We must be wiser in our attempt to win souls for Christ.  We have to be creative.  Jesus showed us the way: be who you are, obey God, and be an example of how things work in the Kingdom.  Everyone is important, everyone is unique, and everyone has a place & purpose.