One of Rush Limbaugh’s weekly quotes on his E.I.B. radio talk show is that learning never stops. Commencement refers to the beginning, the start of a new life. However, when pain becomes your teacher, few want to finish, often dropping out of the school of life.
To Adam he said, “Because you listened to your wife and ate fruit from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ “Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat food from it all the days of your life, Genesis 3:17.
In the real world, tutors exist in the form of mentors. If you earn their respect, perhaps you might be able pull from their years of wisdom to help you along the way. Nothing is ever easy, but if you can endure failures, heartaches and setbacks, you might be able to graduate on the next class God has in store for you.
The coming of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie, 2 Thessalonians 2:9.
Unfortunately, pain never ceases, a byproduct of original sin. The remnants of the fiasco in Eden have gradually spread, poisoning souls to the core. The events of modern terrorist attacks is merely the fulfillment of 2 Thessalonians. Therefore, whether we like it or not, pain is the teacher which shapes the human heart. As the school of hard knocks proceeds, may the trials of life serve as a purification process to refine faith in those who believe.
by Jay Mankus
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