In Genesis chapter 30, Laban makes this statement in verse 27:
“And Laban said unto him, I pray thee, If I have found favour in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD hath blessed me for thy sake.”
And that’s that phrase, “learned by experience.”
Haven’t you done that? You look at when you got out of high school and how much you knew. You knew everything – and as you got older, you got dumber. Remember how much you thought you knew? And what happened? As you grew older, ‘you LEARNED BY EXPERIENCE.” Isn’t that what they say? You get hired but you are going to have to ‘LEARN BY EXPERIENCE’ . . .
Some of you men, you finally married someone that said ‘yes’, but how many did you ask before that? You had to ‘LEARN BY EXPERIENCE’. Maybe you asked 4 or 5 so when the results came in you got one.
But the fact is that over life, as life goes on, you will ‘LEARN things BY EXPERIENCE’.
Okay, no hurry . . . I have a bunch of these . . . but let’s let this one sink in. After a little time has passed I’ll post the next one. Give you boys and girls a chance to ponder this one.
No sense in trying to eat the elephant in one big bite!
I like this even better ...
Good judgement comes from experience.
And experience comes from bad judgement.