It was good for me to be afflicted.
—Psalm 119:71
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen created the theory of “disruptive innovation.”
The theory asserts that a new product or service disrupts an existing market and creates a new one. Professor Christensen cited disruptions that changed the course of history, such as steamships, automobiles, telephones, and personal computers. More recently, we would add the internet, smartphones, and AI.
It made me think of the disruptions in our individual lives that abruptly alter our perspectives and behaviors. Disruptions caused by family, financial, or physical tumult are usually painful—but often life- and eternity-changing.
“It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees” (Ps 119:71
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer” (Rom 12:12).
Change is rarely optional.