I often pride myself with the story of the
double promotions I got in my early education. Twice in a process that should
take eight years I was taken a year ahead of my peers. It was to me a batch of
great honour and in my mind imagine it been said of me, “Here is a lad who
jumps the process.”
It may be desirable – indeed almost
harmless – to see that your child can be intelligent enough for his teachers to
recommend a double promotion (as that will mean you don’t pay the fee of three
terms – or in my case six) but in your personal success journey you cannot jump
the steps. The moment you get on your unique success path you discover, more
sooner than later, that it is a process, which you cannot help but follow.
The problem is
that in or world of speed – speed boats, speed trains, sports cars, and fast
food – nobody wants a process. Processes are too slow for us. We seem to ask, “Why
do I need to learn ‘A’ before I learn ‘A, B, C, D, to Z?’” We see very little
sense in following processes that can be truncated.
God,
though, is a God of processes. With God it is, more often than not, one step at
a time. Isaiah (a prophet) says, “The LORD is going to teach you letter by
letter, line by line, lesson by lesson”. Another way to put it is: “GOD will
start over with the simple basics and address you in baby talk, one syllable at
a time—“Da, da, da, da, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's a good little girl,
that's a good little boy”. I conclude that God wants us into the process so he
makes it slow enough for us to understand.
I
once taught computer studies at a primary school and the way these minors
establishes the fact that we were wired for processes. The moment you take the
shortcut of jumping steps, you realize that it wasn’t a shortcut after all. You
have to be patient and wait until they learn a step before you move on.
God also teaches us that our success journeys are that way, carefully, patiently,
one step at a time he waits for us to understand before he moves on to the next
level.
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