School of Hard Knocks
Have you ever come across someone who is so young physically but seem so mature well beyond their years, or perhaps met someone who is mature in years, but views things as a child?
Everyone has their own personal story… no two are alike. Some have more battle scars or have had more experiences that has forced them to grow up fast or perhaps things in life that may have stunted their growth?
Life is like going to School
Sometimes my hubby and I talk about life as a series of lessons or like school and not until we “graduate” or are promoted to our Heavenly eternal destination, do we ever stop growing or learning.
There are days that I feel like I have passed a certain test, only to fail on the next one.
Days when I feel in some areas I am still in kindergarten, vs. others I have learned the hard way and have moved past.
Life is a series of tests, trials, and lessons, we can either learn from and grow or resist and get held back.
You usually hear …..To learn something (usually a life lesson) the hard way. (Some say the best way to really learn is to learn from your mistakes)
As Christians, it’s what we do and learn from these tests and trials
2 Cor. 4:18 We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;
Psalm 129:2 Many times they have persecuted me from my youth up; Yet they have not prevailed against me.
Isaiah 40:31 Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.
Rom. 8:35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?
2 Cor. 6:4 Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;
It is God’s plan for each of us that we “be conformed to the likeness of his Son” (Romans 8:29). Even in this life, we “are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory” (2 Corinthians 3:18). Paul labored with the Galatians “until Christ is formed in you” (Galatians 4:19). He told the Ephesians that our goal is “attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ” (Ephesians 4:13).
2 Cor. 4:7 but we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed, we are perplexed , but not in despair, persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed-
2 Cor. 4: 16-17 therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
2 Cor.12:10 therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Romans 5:3-5 And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perserverance; and perseverance, character;and character, hope .Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Rom. 8:35&37 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation , or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Yet in all things we are more than conquereros through Him who loved us.
James 1: 2-4 My brethren , count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
1 Peter 1: 6-7 In this that you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor, and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love.
So, What Grade Are You In?
So what grade are you in??? How has it made you the person you are today? Have you learned and grown from it? Or has things in life held you back?
As always wanted to give you the chance, if you are struggling with life and desire to know you are not alone, or if you have heard about Jesus, but desire to know Him and the peace He alone can give you, I encourage you to reach out to Him ….I will leave this simple prayer with you…
In His Love,
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