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It’s amazing what people think they can do with relatively little experience in a given area. I’ve heard one politician say he thought he knew how to legislate-until he got elected, and spent a year learning how to do his job effectively.
So many believers think they have their lives together and with Scripture they have God by the tail. Just claim a verse here, cite a passage there, and life is their oyster. Then they get to growing, emotionally, spiritually, mentally, physically- and they start learning how to live. After Joni Eareckson had her infamous dive, which paralyzed her greatly, she and a boyfriend thought they could just plug in a verse and she would be healed. It really caused them some hard thinking when she had to stay in the chair. It’s the hurts we don’t expect that really knock us down. It wasn’t supposed to go this way or that- but it did. Recovering from those hurts is where we get a better sense of ourselves, and what we can or cannot do, or should not try.
Passion is a great and terrible emotional drive. It moves without reason sometimes. We get into something and sometimes get hurt. But we come away with a greater sense of control of that drive. We move with more discernment the next time because of the terrible bruising we took the last time we let ourselves go. That’s what makes the pain a good hurt- it helped us grow in mind and heart. But it takes remembering the lessons-history unheeded gets repeated!
Life is a hard process- very doable, but we only grow if we learn from its lessons! It’s what growing through the good hurts is about.
Tell me what you think, I’m just thinkin out loud.
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