Watching my kids wrestle their way into adulthood, fighting for ground that life snatched away through hard dealt circumstances and mistakes, I am reminded that the dictionary defines the word education as: The knowledge and development resulting from an education process. That means opportunity is all in the way you look at it. The quality of our life is not dependent on our circumstances, but on what we do with the education life provides.
If we are smart we will let our mistakes and life's circumstance be the tuition for the schooling we have received from them. We don't have to continue making payments on our mistakes. The schooling we have received paid our tuition in full! Now we can invest the education that life has given us.
That means all of my delays and wasted years are part of my schooling. Infact it says in Romans 3:27, speaking of Abraham the Father of faith, "God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does...our lives get into step with God and all others by letting Him set the pace, not by proudly or anxiously trying to run the parade." (Have you noticed His cadence is so much better?)
vs 9, "It was embracing what God did for him that Abraham was declared fit before God." (MSG)
We are all recipients of God's marvelous grace and action in our lives. Those who receive it, walk by faith and on His timeline. Verse 12 says those are the ones who are "...willing to live in the risky faith-embrace of God's action for them." God is masterful at mending broken things. When we get in step with Him even time is redeemed.
Doesn't that make you want to run into the risky-faith embrace of God with all of your hard learned education and be connected to His movement in your life?
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