When someone goes through hardship or difficulty, one idea expressed by many Christians is that God is trying to teach them something. According to Oswald Chambers, God is doing the opposite: he's trying to get them to "unlearn" something. This is a profound truth that I hope I never forget.
Our lives are marred by sin for sure, and because of that we need to unlearn all the bad habits that we have ingrained into the very depths of our being. Everything that comes between us and God needs to be stripped away.
In that sense, God utilizes the "addition by subtraction" principle. Our lives get more abundant when God removes all that prevents us from walking in perfect unity with him.
For those of you who are going through difficulty right now, what do you think that God is trying to get you to unlearn?
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