Opportunity for Growth
"If you ask God to give you X, he will give you the opportunity to experience and develop X."- Unknown
One one of the many podcasts that I listen to I heard a line similar to this one. I did not capture it since I was driving but something about it caught my ear. It has not left my mind ever since.
It seems kind of funny that we experience things that we term as painful and then the experience repeats itself. Sometimes we blame it on bad luck. But is it?
I believe a better way to look at the challenging experiences is to ask yourself what is it about the challenge that we need to learn. For example, if you are always broke then take a look at the latest experience and see why you are broke. How do you spend your money? What is the quality of your purchases? etc.
I believe the quote is offering great wisdom. You might be asking God for help to become wiser in your financial decisions and he is giving you the experience as a way for you to learn. At least that is the way I like to think of the challenge. What is that I need to learn in order to rise above challenge.
What does this mean?
If an experience is scary, then I am needing to develop my courage. If a challenge requires financial astuteness, then I need to figure out how to think in terms of numbers. For every challenge there is a virtue that I need to develop. The challenges allow me to demonstrate that virtue.
Today's question is:
"How do you demonstrate virtues?"
"If you ask God to give you X, he will give you the opportunity to experience and develop X."- Unknown
One one of the many podcasts that I listen to I heard a line similar to this one. I did not capture it since I was driving but something about it caught my ear. It has not left my mind ever since.
It seems kind of funny that we experience things that we term as painful and then the experience repeats itself. Sometimes we blame it on bad luck. But is it?
I believe a better way to look at the challenging experiences is to ask yourself what is it about the challenge that we need to learn. For example, if you are always broke then take a look at the latest experience and see why you are broke. How do you spend your money? What is the quality of your purchases? etc.
I believe the quote is offering great wisdom. You might be asking God for help to become wiser in your financial decisions and he is giving you the experience as a way for you to learn. At least that is the way I like to think of the challenge. What is that I need to learn in order to rise above challenge.
What does this mean?
If an experience is scary, then I am needing to develop my courage. If a challenge requires financial astuteness, then I need to figure out how to think in terms of numbers. For every challenge there is a virtue that I need to develop. The challenges allow me to demonstrate that virtue.
Today's question is:
"How do you demonstrate virtues?"
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