Acts 16:11-15 / John 15:26 - 16:4
If we foresee something and when it turns out to be how we predicted it to be, very likely we will "brag" over it.
We can't help but feel proud and "wise" and we may also say things like: I told you!
Those three words are often used in a condescending manner and directed to those who had refused and rejected our advice and suggestions.
In the gospel, we heard Jesus using the phrase "I have told you all this" and He even said it three times.
Yet, what He said was not after the fact but before those events had happened.
His purpose was not so much as to prove what He said was true, but so that when the time for those events to come to pass, His disciples may remember that Jesus had told them.
In fact, even after the resurrection, we don't hear of Jesus chiding His disciples and saying "I told you already" or "Didn't I tell you ..."
But like the disciples, we too must ask ourselves if we are listening to the promptings of the Holy Spirit to do the will of God.
From experience, we know that in not listening and being sensitive to the promptings of the Holy Spirit we end up as unhappy and frustrated losers.
So let us be still and listen to what the Lord is telling us. For His words are spirit and they are life.