THE INTERVENTION

Experience or familiarity can be defined as an occurrence or an event that has lasting implications of knowledge of a certain skill.

However, I believe that for our experiences to be considered as life changing or pregnant with lessons they must prompt us to change the cause of our direction, remove the thorns in our hearts, humble us or cause us to be in a different emotional place.
Basically there should be growth in a certain area of our lives.

Sometimes though, I think in our definition of experiences we must not omit encounter.
We can have the most amazing experiences in life but if we don’t have an encounter which for the purposes of this article would be defined as an event or an intervention then our experiences will always be limited to meaningless occurrences or learning curves and not life changing. 

In fact I realise that if our experiences are not accompanied by a life changing encounter we may even take for granted the lessons that we were meant to acquire.
An encounter must always form a major part of the journey that defines what we then refer to as an experience.
We carry with us certain experiences that can be very painful, traumatic or eye opening, some awesome though.

However, if we look back at those experiences and all we feel or acknowledge is how disturbing and painful those were without extracting the real encounter then we missed it.
The possibility is that we might just go through it again.

moment of intervention

The encounter is that moment of intervention when you know that your solution has been handed over to you. We often forget those moments yet they form part of that experience. The intervention is basically assistance to help us recover from whatever it is that we went through.

Even though some interventions may require that we open up to discussing the pertinent details of our circumstances it is necessary for our moving forward.
Self-disclosure is the most difficult to reveal even though there is some similarity in the reasons why males and females avoid self-disclosure, coherent differences exist.

Generally, males avoid self-disclosure in order to maintain control over their relationships; females avoid self-disclosure in order to avoid personal hurt and problems with their interpersonal relationships.
There is no harm, however, when we choose to open up to God.

 In the book of Genesis, Jacob is speaking to his wives, Leah and Rachel, reminding them of how their father, Laban, had deceived him and changed his wages 10 times.
Yet, God had been with him, and whenever Laban had changed his wages, God had ensured that Jacob had been blessed in spite of his father-in-law’s underhanded schemes.
So when Laban had tried to undercut Jacob’s wealth by assigning to him the sheep or goats with recessive coat patterns speckled or streaked rather than the dominant solid colours .

God blessed the production of the sheep that Jacob needed to prosper. What is clear is that Genesis 30-31 describes divine intervention, a miracle, an event that would not occur naturally apart from God’s involvement.
An intervention, therefore, is that moment when you definitely are aware that it is only God that could have brought a moment of victory in your circumstances.

It could be that you are walking down the street and suddenly you meet a friend and they drive you into an opportunity of a lifetime and that changes your life completely.

God’s intervention

The encounter with a friend is God’s intervention and yet again we always encounter him in many other ways and he intervenes frequently in our lives Richard T. Ritenbaugh once observed while writing a commentary on the book of numbers on the story of Balaam and the donkey that God gets us in a wide place and allows us to make our decisions.
 It soon becomes apparent which direction we are going, which path we are taking.

Then God begins to narrow the way, especially if He sees us going in the wrong direction.
He catches us in a place where we can turn around and gives us an opportunity to make a right decision.
If we do not do what He wants us to do, He will go a little further down the path—a little bit later in our life—to catch us in a place where the answer is obvious, and we can do nothing except stop, and say, “God help me! I’ve gone the wrong way, and I need you to open the path for me.”

He does this to Balaam. He gets him to the point where there is only plunging on to destruction on one hand, and on the other, stopping and retracing his steps to where he can head in the right direction.

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