Hard Lesson
I am pretty good at taking other people's advice. I am not very good at taking my own advice. I trick myself into thinking, "I know better".
I wasn't very good at taking care of things my parents gave me. For example, I received a new bike for Christmas one year. I decided to spiff it up. I painted it with house paint, a bright orange as I remember. It was ugly, I didn't want the bike anymore but I was stuck with it. My father told me not to paint it. I did anyway. From there the bike went down hill. I didn't bother with it. I bent the spokes in the wheels, I messed around with the brakes until I didn't have any. The bike became a wreck but I still had to ride it.
I was out one day riding around a construction site and came upon a sewer hole that had been lined with concrete. I rode up to the edge of the hole thinking I could stop but I didn't. My front tire hit the lip of the concrete and I went head first over the handlebars into the hole. The hole was at least 7-8 feet deep.
I remember picking my self up at the bottom dusting myself off. My hands and arms were bleeding from the scrapes and cuts I received on the way down to the bottom. There were medal prongs sticking out of the concrete which I snagged on the way down. I used the same medal prongs to climb out of the hole I accessed the damage to my body and decided it wasn't all that bad. I rode home . I never told my parents what happened. I figured better left unsaid. It was a hard lesson I survived.
Now as I look back in my old age, I realize that we give ourselves hard lessons because we don't listen to others, we know better or we just plow ahead not thinking. I now realize God had a hand in this somewhere. He saved my life that day in spite of my stupidity.
I want you to know God has a hand in our lives as He does His best to guide us. We seem to be determined to make our own way and it becomes a hard lesson. If I had listened to my father that day, if I had been a little more responsible for my bike, I wouldn't have scars on my hands reminding me of what happens when I go our own way.
With Jesus choosing the Cross he was willing to bear the scars of life for us. We end up making His love a hard lesson because we think we know better. Thankfully, Jesus offers us grace hoping our hard lessons become life saving, not only for ourselves but for others we love. It is the least we can do to listen and learn from God's example of unconditional love. God wants us to avoid the hard lessons of life. God Loves You!
I wasn't very good at taking care of things my parents gave me. For example, I received a new bike for Christmas one year. I decided to spiff it up. I painted it with house paint, a bright orange as I remember. It was ugly, I didn't want the bike anymore but I was stuck with it. My father told me not to paint it. I did anyway. From there the bike went down hill. I didn't bother with it. I bent the spokes in the wheels, I messed around with the brakes until I didn't have any. The bike became a wreck but I still had to ride it.
I was out one day riding around a construction site and came upon a sewer hole that had been lined with concrete. I rode up to the edge of the hole thinking I could stop but I didn't. My front tire hit the lip of the concrete and I went head first over the handlebars into the hole. The hole was at least 7-8 feet deep.
I remember picking my self up at the bottom dusting myself off. My hands and arms were bleeding from the scrapes and cuts I received on the way down to the bottom. There were medal prongs sticking out of the concrete which I snagged on the way down. I used the same medal prongs to climb out of the hole I accessed the damage to my body and decided it wasn't all that bad. I rode home . I never told my parents what happened. I figured better left unsaid. It was a hard lesson I survived.
Now as I look back in my old age, I realize that we give ourselves hard lessons because we don't listen to others, we know better or we just plow ahead not thinking. I now realize God had a hand in this somewhere. He saved my life that day in spite of my stupidity.
I want you to know God has a hand in our lives as He does His best to guide us. We seem to be determined to make our own way and it becomes a hard lesson. If I had listened to my father that day, if I had been a little more responsible for my bike, I wouldn't have scars on my hands reminding me of what happens when I go our own way.
With Jesus choosing the Cross he was willing to bear the scars of life for us. We end up making His love a hard lesson because we think we know better. Thankfully, Jesus offers us grace hoping our hard lessons become life saving, not only for ourselves but for others we love. It is the least we can do to listen and learn from God's example of unconditional love. God wants us to avoid the hard lessons of life. God Loves You!
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