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Many become inefficient because, for fear of failure, they evade responsibilities. Thus they do not gain that education which results from experience, and which reading and study and all the advantages otherwise gained cannot give them.

… these experiences, whether becoming master or victim of circumstances, depends largely on the kind of education one receives.

As they learn thus to study the lessons in all created things and in all life’s experiences, show that the same laws are given for our good, and that only in obedience to them can we find true happiness and success.

God has given in His Word a picture of Job, a prosperous man—one whose life was in the truest sense a success, a person whom both heaven and earth delighted to honor. Of his experiences Job himself says:

The same experience is repeated in the history of Jacob’s sons. God does not annul His laws. He does not work contrary to them. He does not undo the work of sin. But He transforms. Through His grace the curse results in blessing.

Faith is needed in the smaller no less than in the greater experiences of life. In all our daily interests and occupations the sustaining strength of God becomes real to us through an abiding trust.

Let children and youth be taught that every mistake, every fault, every difficulty, conquered, becomes a stepping-stone to better and higher things. Through such experiences all who have ever made life worth living have achieved success.

All the perplexities of life’s experience will then be made plain. Where to us have appeared only confusion and disappointment, broken purposes and thwarted plans, will be seen a grand, overruling, victorious purpose, a divine harmony.

“Moses chose able men from all Israel. ... Hard cases they brought to Moses, but any minor case they decided themselves” (verses 25, 26, NRSV). Moses was careful to select men possessing dignity, sound judgment, and experience.

… the experiences before him.