Failing to learn from experience...

I’m almost at the end of my reading in the Biblical book of 2nd Kings, and this morning I read about how King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem and took many people into exile, as well as carrying off treasures from the temple and the royal palace.
Even so, when Zedekiah becomes King of Judah, he reigns for eleven years in a way that is still displeasing to God. What is it about human nature that makes us fail to see the warning signs and learn from the mistakes of the past? You’d think that an impending and already partial exile would make this new king turn back to God... but no! He just goes right ahead and does evil anyway.

Father, what are the areas in my own life where I fail to learn life or leadership lessons from past experience? I don’t want to be like Zedekiah, who kept living the wrong way, even though there was overwhelming evidence that it brought bad fruit.

What about you? What "evidence” has popped up in your life over the past year or two... and what lessons have you learned on this recent leg of your journey? If we can’t remember what God has been showing us over the past year, we might be in danger of making the same mistake as Zedekiah.