How to achieve your goals faster
I once heard brother Andrew Wommack say “It is easier to raise the dead than to raise children.” Children are a blessing but when they get to their teen years, you almost want to think they are the opposite of a blessing. Jeff Allen - a comedian, said he believes teenagers are God’s revenge to human beings. God wanted to show us how it feels like to have our own children rebel against us.
God has given me a priviledge in helping to raise a teenager. First of all, I give this young man credit. If you were to compare him with other teenagers, he is exceptional and I don’t think they get any better than this. He is really a great boy. But, as all teenagers, he just thinks he is the wisest creation that has ever made it to planet earth. Taking advise just doesn’t seem to be his thing because “he knows it all!”
The blessing I get from him though, is that my relationship with him has helped me see things in my relationship with God that I probably would never have seen. One of those is the ability to learn from other people’s life experiences. Just like I try to give this young man some advise based on some of the life experiences I have had, God has given me some examples I can learn from. There is really no reason why we should go through the “school of hard knocks” if we don’t have to.
If there was a better way and a shorter path to reach your goals faster, wouldn’t you want to use that way and path? Well, thank God there is.
In 1 cor. 10:11, the bible tells us that, “These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.” In his wisdom, God gave us a variety of examples we can learn from. You can also look at Romans 15:4 and 2 Timothy 3:16
There are 2 ways we can learn from people’s lives.
1. Examples – learn what is good – what we should do
2. Warnings – Learn what is bad – what we should not do.
As we read the bible, we can know what made some people successful and why others failed. As we read these examples and apply them in our lives, not only does it help us avoid pitfalls, but also helps us achieve success faster than we would have done without these people’s life lessons. John Salisbury said, “We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.”
The other way you can learn from other people’s life experiences is through reading biographies and finding a mentor.
When we learn to use other people’s experiences to our advantage, we can achieve our goals and get to our destinations faster.
I encourage you to develop the habit of learning from other people’s experiences.
You can find some of the resources I found to help you in this by going to the resources page.
Stay blessed and keep the faith!
Moses Kangave
