Hard Way or Easy Way
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Life is more about the school of hard knocks than it is about academia. Learning is a process not an exercise. There is more already at work inside of you than you will learn in a life time. Each new experience should be seen as the process by which we learn more about who we really are on the inside. God has designed each of us with unique DNA. Just as we are all unique physically, we are a unique person that when fully realized, becomes who God intended us to be. The big question is, “Do I work life out the hard way or the easy way?” Knowledge is what you know, but wisdom is what you have learned through experience. The sad things is that for most people, it is the end of life before they attain true wisdom.
1- Wisdom comes through the experiences of life. Someone said, “The last words of an idiot are…’Watch this’.” We have all done things that we look back and wonder what we were thinking. In actuality, the bad part is not so much that we did something not wise. It is that we didn’t learn anything from it. Be careful whose example you follow. Want to be successful in a particular area? Find someone who has wisdom about it, not just someone who knows something about it.
2- Wisdom comes through pain. To become a butterfly a caterpillar goes through a complete metamorphosis. What a beautiful thing a butterfly is, but it came about through pain. Not all caterpillars experience this pain. They die and never become a butterfly. On the other side, every butterfly must have experienced a “complete metamorphosis” in his life. These are called Life Maturing stages.
3- Wisdom comes through taking life seriously. If you spend your whole life partying and not taking the right things seriously, you will eventually fall very short. To take life seriously, every phase of it has to be taken seriously. Foolish people waste the opportunities placed in their life. Often they miss them alltogether because of looking at them immaturely. Face the day ahead. See the challenges as “growth spirts” in your life.
