Until We Get It Right

Have you ever failed a class? If it’s a required class, what usually happens? You have to take the class again in order to graduate, right?

Well, the same rules apply to life lessons. We experience things in life the same way until we master the lesson God is trying to teach us. We have heard that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results. When we change the behavior, we often get the results we originally wanted. That means that we have mastered the lesson and we don’t have to repeat it. We are ready to move on to the next life experience.

Example: You date someone that hurts you. You break up with that person and begin to date someone else. That person hurts you too! The cycle continues until you identify the common thread in each relationship and make an adjustment. We must change a behavior. Perhaps we decide to date a person longer before we jump into the next level of the relationship. Maybe we screen potential mates harder to avoid future heartbreak. What happens when we change the behavior? We don’t end up hurt like before.

What I think is so awesome about God is that at the same time He is trying to teach us something, He is also trying to heal us from those things that we allowed to hurt us in the first place. So not only are we smarter from the lesson, but we are better because of the healing.

Ponder on this….Have you ever broken up with a person that hurt you so badly that could still feel the pain just at the sight of that person, even sometimes long after the break up? Then, after you have “gotten” the lesson and actually heal you can see that same person that hurt you and feel no pain at all? That’s God!

Be Blessed!
Ivy League