I WAS SURPRISED WHAT I LEARNED AFTER I TRIED IT

The teacher explains the subject in class and you say, "I know this now". Then you go and start doing the assignment and think, "where did this come from"? Or I can watch a musician playing an instrument and think, "That can't be to hard"; and then you try it and it is very difficult. I may hear many things and learn a "smidgen"; but until I actually follow up on what I hear (PUT IT INTO ACTION BY DOING) by actually doing it do I learn anything. James 1:22, "But be doers of the WORD, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves..." Then, in addition to that, if I don't keep going back and doing something by either repeating it or expanding it, I soon forget and can't do it at all. James 1:23, "For if anyone is a hearer of the WORD and not a doer, he is like a man...who looks ...in a mirror...and forgets what he was like." I wish all of you could learn from my mistakes to save you pain and misery but hearing without action is self-deceptive and we all "only learn by doing". Keep going to the WORD and try it, YOU WILL BE SURPRISED WHAT YOU WILL LEARN.
   
Psalm 139: 23-24 
Isaiah  43:1 
GOD IS GOD!