"...For God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you."
I got to listen recently to a professor of Statistics who
was telling us about how with her teaching methods that bring statistics out of
a book and into examples of everyday life encounters, that she has
significantly improved the number of “DWFs”.
It took a few minutes but finally someone asked what was on my mind and
I am sure the minds of others, “What is a DWF?”
The teacher explained that this meant; drops (those who drop out within the allowed
try it out weeks); withdrawals, (which are those who stay past that time limit
but still pull out of the class), and; failures,( those that stick with it but
fail the class). “DWFs”….none are good. But, the good news is that by using
technology for new teaching delivery methods, illustrative examples and
pragmatic communication she was taking a hard subject and making it easier to
learn. I wonder how often we have DWFs from our customers? Do we even know how many DWFs happen when
someone experiences our product or service?
What is for sure is that when any one of the three happen, they tell others
so we can’t afford to ignore or miss this important part of the grading of our
own success. Miss it and lose. Know and improve it, and win.
Stop here and thank our Lord that He does not grade us.
If He did we all would be F’s for sure.
But, even in His merciful and forgiving Kingdom we still have D’s and W’s. And, we all have shown signs and tendencies
of this as well. Peter denied Christ
three times at the most significant time of need in Jesus’ life. He withdrew from Jesus and let others know
it. When grading ourselves it is hard to comprehend how we can miss God’s love
and gifts that He has for us, but we do.
God wants us to stay in the game with Him. Don’t drop or withdraw and
don’t worry about failing. His is the
greatest of understanding and patience.
Today, where are we? On the verge
of a DWF? Nothing that can happen today
will undermine of destroy God’s will, love and protection of us. If we can remember this today then DWF has no
meaning at all to us.
Reference: Hebrews 13:6 (New Living Translation)
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