When just a young convert I remember hearing a lay preacher say, “One thing I’ve learned in life and that is to never say, ‘One thing I’ve learned.’” He explained that just about the time he makes such a statement he finds he didn’t learn anything.
This is one of those sayings in life we are to take in a general setting. For example, Paul tells the Philippians, “I have learned…” This is true throughout the Bible of other saints testimonies also. There are some things in life we learn, which once learned, are settled in concret.
I heard a preacher friend of mine once say, “Every unsettled thing in our lives the devil will fight us on.” As an old timer taught his son, “Know a thing, and know you know it.” (1Jn.2:3,a) True, some people never learn: that is the cause of constant repetition of the same old things.
“Our Divine Teacher will only advance us to the next grade when we have learned our present subject. If not, we’ll have to repeat it.”
(rds)
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