What Did You Learn in Kindergarten?

In his popular book, All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum describes these basic lessons of life:Share everything. Play Fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.  His summary? All the wisdom we need for life is not found in graduate school but in kindergarten.Fulghum's summary has a spiritual application: We can mistakenly think that we need some deep and mysterious truth to have wisdom to live, that we need to have a seminary level of spiritual knowledge.  But we don't!  What we do need is to:

• See our lives in light of eternity: they are like a blip on the screen, like grass, or summer flowers.
• Ask God to help us number our days--to have the perspective that we are not going to be here forever. Therefore, pray for the wisdom to invest your life in what honors Him.
• Remember we have ONE life to live.  How can we make it count for God, who gave everthing for us?

Our journeys will be differerent.  For some it will be more smooth, for others more rugged. Yet we can find the wisdom and strength needed  to live an effective, productive, and overcoming life that glorifies God no matter our circumstances.  The key lies in three simple, yet profound Biblical truths:

• God loves you--personally and unconditionally because of your faith in Christ's death for you. (John 3:16; Romans 5:1-2; 6:22)
• God is with you--in every situation, at all times, you are never abandoned to face life by yourself. (Matthew 28:20; 2 Timothy 4:17; 1 Corinthians 1:8-9)
• God is at work in your life--even when things seem dark and discouraging, God is at work IN you, shaping you into the image of His Son, deepening your faith, enabling you to stand, persevere, and trust. (Romans 8:28-29; Philippians 2:13; Ephesians 6:13).

These three key truths are ones we learned in our spiritual kindergarten years--but they contain all the wisdom we need for living today.Here's a question to think about: Which of these three truths are you forgetting today? Which do you need to apply?Why not ask the Lord to help you do this right now?