Our theme for this month: “Mistakes”
Our Bible verse for today: “Though I have fallen, I will stand up; though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.” Micah 7:8 (HCSB)
Our thought for today: “God forgives our mistakes”
Have you made any mistakes lately? Ok, I guess a better question would be, “How many mistakes have you made lately, and how bad were they?” The fact is that we all make mistakes. Big ones and little ones, some of them inconsequential and some of them life changing, but life is full of mistakes. The key of course, is what we do about our mistakes. We can learn from them and grow better, stronger, and wiser, or we can be crushed by them. The question is not whether or not we make mistakes, we will. The question is how we handle the mistakes once we’ve made them.
The editors of the Christian Arts Daily Planner offered some helpful insight when they wrote, “Although burning the breakfast toast is a mistake, it is trivial and leaves no lasting consequences. On the other hand, a doctor who misreads a chart and removes a kidney instead of an appendix has made a mistake of considerably greater implications. We all make mistakes. Some of our mistakes are accidental, while others are intentional and sinful. The Bible is full of stories about people who made mistakes, both trivial and catastrophic, and about the great God who forgives our wrongs.”
The wonderful truth is that God forgives our mistakes. But even more than that, He helps us to move past them. As the Old Testament prophet Micah expressed in Micah 7:8, even when we have fallen and find ourselves sitting in a dark place in life, God will be there for us and He will be our light so we can find our way out of that place. But in order for that to happen we have to admit the mistake, seek forgiveness, and then intentionally move forward with the Lord from there.
Whatever mistakes we have made, with God’s help we can recover from it. God forgives, forgets, and restores us.
God Bless
Pastor Jim
Oak Hill Baptist Church 