My Pondering
That’s deep stuff from sir Charles…I for one sure want learn and adapt quickly as possible, especially from OPM (Other People’s Mistakes) as we see in life and the Bible because I have suffered plenty for being a bonehead.
With an attitude of gratitude and applying wisdom we pick up, hopefully we can avoid some of these painful experiences. However, when it’s all said and done, then we will really know that some, maybe all, of these painfully experiences where blessings turned inside out.
God does indeed whisper to us in our comfort, speak to us during our daily routines but He most certainly SHOUTS and to us in our pain.
Let’s not forget these comforting words from the mind of Paul, as guided by the Spirit:
“16 Therefore we do not lose heart.
1 Corinthians 4:16-18,
Though our outer self is wasting away,
yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.
17 For our light and momentary affliction
is producing for us an eternal glory
that is far beyond comparison.
18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen,
but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary,
but what is unseen is eternal”