Life Lessons Are Expensive, Share Yours and Borrow as Many as You Can

Life Lessons

We have all used the expression: “He had to learn it the hard way.” Somehow we all know that life lessons can be hard to learn if we try to do it all by ourselves, “the hard way.” Proverbs lays out the recipe for gaining wisdom you start with knowledge, add understanding and it produces wisdom. Proverbs goes on to tell us that the fear (reverence) of the Lord teaches a man wisdom (Proverbs 15:33).

So we want to be wise but we don’t want to learn everything “the hard way.” I have found that in life there are only so many life lessons you can pay for yourself. Each life lesson takes time, physical and emotional energy to pay for the lesson learned. Each of these are quantities we are all limited in. So the answer is to freely give away the life lessons you have learned and in humility borrow as many life lessons from others as you can.

Humility in this case means accepting the fact that you can’t pay for all the life lessons you need and honor those in community with you by learning from their lessons learned. I believe this is one of the reasons why God put us in relationship with others so we could share and encourage one another to greater works.

So humble yourself today and learn a life lesson from someone around you. Maybe, they will be interested in one of yours as well, and you can both avoid learning a life lesson “the hard way.”

Proverbs 15:33 The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor.