Mistakes Reforms Us

We all hate admitting to making mistakes. None of us wanted to accept, acknowledge and confess having made mistakes. We will try to blame someone for our mistakes. But mistakes are important. Mistakes are like a beacon of light that guide us out of wrongs. Without mistakes we may not know we are wrong. We must learn to accept mistakes because mistakes are healthy. Mistakes are like symptoms revealing a sickness. Without mistakes we cannot understand perfection. Without mistakes we cannot be perfect. Mistakes show us we are wrong so that we can trust the perfect God to guide us.

All of us make mistakes at some time of our life. Some make more than others. Then they are those who believe they are never wrong because they are confident they never make mistakes. The reason God ask us not to judge people is because we all make mistakes. When we make mistakes, we wanted people to understand us and forgive us of our wrong doings. Mistakes are God’s way to reveal our weakness and imperfections and our need for Him to help us.

Why do we deny making mistakes? I guess the reason we blame others for our mistakes is to impress upon others that we are never wrong. We wanted to defend our perfections which are in reality a deception.

Mistakes help us to learn to be better and wiser people. Concealing mistakes weakens us while exposing mistakes strengthens us. Sometimes we need to make many more mistakes to cover a conceal mistake. A conceal mistake not expose may derail and affect your everyday living for a long time. Finally, I confessed all my sins to you and stopped trying to hide them. I said to myself, "I will confess my rebellion to the LORD." And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone. (Psalm 32:5). An exposed mistake receives forgiveness and is set free.

I admitted to my mistakes so that God can correct me. I could have make out a list of people I can blame to make myself look praiseworthy. I could have blamed everyone to wallow in the consolation that I was right all the time.

Did I lose everything in my mistakes? It looks that way. When I reminisce about what had happen, I realized how much I had benefitted from the lesson albeit all its sufferings. I did not lose anything in the entire process; on the contrary I gain an expanded wisdom on living life and develop a richer relationship with my Savior Jesus.

Admitting to having made mistakes humble us. Protecting and defending mistakes are prideful. Admitting mistakes reveal our imperfections and weakness, remembering that we were created out of dust and our need for God. Protecting and defending mistakes mask the true weakness in us making us liars because we claimed to be perfect. Pomposity induce us to decline our need for God to help us.

Accountability to mistakes reveals our weakness. Mistakes build us to be stronger people in facing tougher challenges that surrounds and confront us all the time. God allow us to make mistakes so that we can turn to trust him to guide us.

The first finger pointing episode dated all the way back to the Garden of Eden. The synopsis- at the Garden of Eden, God sternly warned Adam and Eve the deadly repercussions if they chose to eat from the tree of knowledge. The serpent cleverly convinced them that its okay to eat as the fruit of that tree will promote them to equality with God. And when God pursued to uncover who initiated disobedience to his earlier caution, the first ever account of finger pointing unfolded. Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed the serpent. Each of us is presented with an opportunity to make a right decision prior to making a mistake. Eve could have prevented herself making a mistake if she chose correctly and wisely by heeding God’s warning. Sometimes a single mistake can involve numerous people.

We make mistakes simply because we rejected God’s Spirit to reign in our hearts to help us make the right honorable decisions which will bring glory to God who alone loves us in Christ Jesus our Saviour Lord.

We can either be very sore losers or jubilant victors. And we need to make wise decisions. We can make right wise decisions if we ask Jesus to help us. And He will.

So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is the opposite of what the Holy Spirit wants. And the Holy Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to accomplish your good intentions. Galatians 5:16-17