Written For Our Learning

Apostle Grace Lubega

Romans 15:4(KJV); For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

The scriptures are full of experiences of men and women that walked with God; they defied odds, performed wonders and awed their generations.

However, not everything that is written of them is for your experience.

Indeed, you may learn, that is, draw the rightful lessons from them, but you do not necessarily have to experience everything they experienced.

Take the very common example of Paul the apostle’s life. He speaks of how a messenger from satan, a thorn in the flesh, was sent to buffet him, to check his inclination towards pride because of the abundance of the revelations that he had received from God (2 Corinthians 12:7).

The irony is how often this experience of the man of God is used by some to justify pain and affliction in the flesh. A Christian suffering with a chronic illness may call it his thorn in the flesh, the messenger sent to buffet him.

Another may call his physical disability his thorn in the flesh.

But here is a question, have you received the abundance of revelation that Paul has received? Have you been to the third heaven and heard words that a man is forbidden to utter? (2 Corinthians 12:4)

What Paul went through was not for your experience but for your learning.

The greatest lesson we draw therefrom is that the more we know God, the humbler we must become.

You don’t need a messenger to buffet your flesh as you launch deeper into the experiences of God, you only need to break and humble yourself before the Almighty God as He unveils the secrets of His heart to you.

FURTHER STUDY: omans 4:23-24,1 Corinthians 10:11

GOLDEN NUGGET:

You don’t need a messenger to buffet your flesh as you launch deeper into the experiences of God, you only need to break and humble yourself before the Almighty God as He unveils the secrets of His heart to you.

PRAYER: Father, thank you for your precious word. In it are the patterns for living, a manual with which to live my life. I learn what I must learn and walk in the experiences that you have ordained for me. I am humbled before you God, even as you take me deeper in your truth. In Jesus’ name. Amen.