From the time you are born, to the time you die, you are learning. Learning occurs in all phases of your life. Even today, years past childhood learning, you are still learning. The things you learn draw you deeper into your daily experiences.
An unknown author says this about your learning from past experiences: “Past experience should be a guidepost, not a hitching post.” The experiences, that life brings your way daily, are meant for you to learn from them. They are not meant for you to stay in that past experience. You have that event happen, either good or bad, as something to gain insight from them. You should, then, move on with your life.
Scripture talks about a good viewpoint to have in relation to the events of everyday life. “I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things, I have learned both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need” (Philippians 4:12, NKJV). That is a very important lesson to learn. Knowing, how to live in luxury, is something we enjoy. In fact, if you could live your life any way you could, you would spend the rest of your life enjoying the good life. But that is not realistic. Life is made of good times and bad times. The verse, above, stresses the fact that you need to learn how to adjust to whatever life may bring your way. Notice, the verse says that being content in both the good blessings of life and the hard trials of life, is something that is “learned.”
Everyday life brings something for you to learn. That event may be something positive or something negative. What is important is that in each event of life, Christ gives you something to learn! That brings glory to Christ!
