LEARN FROM EXPERIENCE

I know that God has His own timing, but yet it continues to amaze me every single time.

This time it's about the Daily Devotional of Bob Gass (www.bobgass.com) that I usually read everyday.

While we were in Russia I wasn't able to read it, so when I went back a couple of lessons today, I found out that the topic of the past couple of days has been "learning from experience".... Isn't this ironic? That's exactly what I talked about yesterday.

Please join in to read this "Food For Thought."

"The Lord gives wisdom." Pr 2:6 Contrary to what you may have heard, experience is not the best teacher - evaluated experience is the best teacher! Everybody has some kind of experience; it's what you do with your experience that matters. We all begin our lives as empty notebooks. Every day we've an opportunity to record new experiences. With each page we gain more understanding. Ideally, as we progress our notebook becomes filled with observations. But not all of us make the best use of our notebooks. Some of us leave the notebook closed; we rarely jot down anything at all. Others fill their pages but never take time to read them, reflect on them and gain greater wisdom. But a few of us not only make a record of what we experience, we linger over it and reflect on it. Reflection turns into insight, so that we not only live the experience,
but learn from it. We all know people with lots of knowledge, but little understanding. They have the means, but they don't know the meaning of anything. What's the problem? Their life experience is void of reflection and evaluation. When twenty-five years go by they don't gain twenty-five years' experience, they gain one year of experience twenty-five times! To win in life you must turn your experience into wisdom. So:
(1) Slow down. Wisdom is gleaned over time, not overnight.
(2) Drill down. The treasure is there, but you have to dig for it.
(3) Get down. Yes, get down on your knees and talk to God, because "The Lord gives wisdom."

So as I'm sitting on the bus right now to Sf. Gheorghe I am still not 100% able to completely forget about the loss in Kursk... but I trust that at the end this disappointing experience was meant for SOMEthing good! I hope that we each individually will take some time to reflect and grow from it- to then come together again and fight as a unit for the remaining titles left in this season.

A unit thas it stronger, closer and unbeatable.

Let's go MCM!
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