1 Corinthians 2: 7 But
we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God
ordained before the world unto our glory: 8
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would
not have crucified the Lord of glory:
I realize that this isn't really talking about this, but the example of how I relate that to my experience is that if my dad had known what would happen, he wouldn't have rushed to get the mail. Of course, that's hindsight.
We, all too often, tried to make it to the mailbox before my dad did, because he had a previous history of falling and we didn't want him out there without a cane or walker. Since my dad moved here, he so wanted to be a contributing member of our household. Each day, he would watch for the mailman. He didn't want anyone to beat him to the mailbox, so he would take off great guns and rush to the mailbox and return with his bounty to share with us.
Well, one afternoon, it caught up with him. He didn't take his cane with him and tripped on our one lone step onto the front porch. At least that's what we think, because Dad was out there a for awhile. I was standing behind the door waiting for him, because he would try to open it with his hands full which seemed to make him even more of a risk for falling.
I finally opened the door to see why it was taking so long and found my dad struggling to get up, blood dripping down his arm. He wouldn't let us take him to the emergency room that day, but he did a few days later. He had fractured a couple of ribs in his fall. Actually, they didn't pick up on the fractured ribs in the initial x ray, but they showed up later in the month when we came in because of breathing issues. We found out that this is quite common.
Unfortunately, we needed to insist on him not getting the mail from that point, which was difficult at first. After a while, he took on the job of letting us know when the mailman had arrived, because he delivered our mail at inconsistent times. 1 Corinthians 2: 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: 8 Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
Since these are examples of how I've applied these Bible verses to my experience, they may not reflect the whole meaning of the verse.
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