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Spiritual Lessons from the Backwards Bicycle
In this essay I will be drawing some spiritual lessons from Mr. Sandlin’s experience with the backwards bike. The first spiritual lesson I learned was knowledge isn’t understanding, the second is that truth is truth no matter what someone says. Lastly after learning how to ride a backwards bike he couldn’t ride a normal bike, he could do either one or the other. Knowledge isn’t understanding because you can know something without understanding it. For example if I know what the whole Bible says, but I don’t understand it will not do me much good at all. Proverbs 2:6 says “For the lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” We can read the bible and pray for God to give

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