Oh, it's August and has been all weekend and back into Friday. That means the 's' word is lurking out there, somewhere near, full of its dreadful connotations, contractions, verbs, nouns, math, science, and all those other subjects. Learning in this life seems to bear a price of some sort. School comes with rigid hours, strange cold\hot buildings, uncomfortable chairs, and much noise. Experience brings pain, sorrow, suffering, and other less-than-happy freight. We learn little from happy times except that we want more of them. Sorrow times seem to linger like the smell of dead bunny in a hot garage. Why else do we inflict 9 months of school on the kids and only 3 for summer vacation except to let them know the value of suffering to learn over skating to enjoy? Why do we recall that vague uneasy feeling at the start of August from our school years, and then laugh at the kids when that same look comes over their little faces?
Of course, knowledge may well be worth the price we pay. Most of us paid dearly in time, effort, money, and suffering for the knowledge we have, or at least to avoid being stupid. Whether that all worked for me is of course open to your interpretation. Our knowledge of God, His Son, and other needful things came under instruction from ministers, mentors, and Bible reading. But, is there any other perhaps experiential knowledge of Jesus that comes to us? Sure, but you have to believe to receive it. Often I marvel at how one person can see God and another cannot while both sit in the same situation or program of learning. We know since our salvation that it has all to do with the decision to believe. It is like we have the key to open the lock, while others in their stubborn unbelief pound at a locked door. Therefore, be glad that the tough, sometimes harsh, experiences and training in this life go to a good education in Christ. We're gonna need it for eternity!
Enjoy a great new week in God's love!Bucky
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