Hello everyone!
I hope you are enjoying the start of the second month of the year, even if it is snowing right now as I write this post.
Today, I'm going to take a quick look at how our mistakes can shape our future either for the better or the worse so buckle up because it's going to be a heckuva ride...
A Lesson to Learn From
I once heard it put that it's better to learn from other people's mistakes to save you making the same ones. However, with enough time and experience on my side now, I am more likely to consider that a statement like that has less truth than it first appears.
You see, sometimes you can only really learn a lesson if you make it yourself.
Take me; it took me two minor shunts in my first car before I learnt not to do that again. You'd think one was enough, right? Nope.
Then of course there's the small issue of a certain crush I was once talking about with prevalence upon here. Sure I made some mistakes along the way in my pursuit to try and tell her, but at this point she has no idea how I feel and I wasn't brave enough to tell her. Some might call that a mistake. Me? I call it just another lesson learned.
If I fail to learn from my mistakes am I doomed to repeat them? Maybe.
The real power, I think, comes from being able to look back at the scars that mar your life and see where you went wrong so that you know better than you did before. Should the same incident come up again, using those mistakes as reminders, you can adapt your approach.
Take me. I now know what not to do when it comes to developing a crush on somebody; let it go on for so long that you can't even bring yourself to tell her out of fear of rejection.
Every scar, however, is also a reminder to me that God was here whilst I got it and though it was not His intention for me to get scarred in such ways as these, they help give me the strength that even when nobody else was, God was here just like it says in Psalm 46:1.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
First Priorities
You see, it is in the midst of my mistakes that I find out where my anchor of hope, faith and truth really lies. Even though I still like this girl a whole lot to this day the fact of the matter is that she is currently unavailable so I'm best off keeping my distance from now on. It really doesn't matter what you think of me doing that, it's my life and I'll do with it what I see fit.
At the end of the day, God was here before all of this even started so He deserves the right to be first in the midst of all of this. I could rue my misfortune and I do, I do. The point is that at least I took the shot two years ago. At least I asked her out. That's enough for me.
As far as I am concerned, my past mistakes may have cost me dear in some things, they have earned for me greatly lessons that I can take forward into my future as I seek to control only what I do and what I say and that's that.
Final Thought
If these words have provided you with at least some comfort then I am glad because you can know that you are not alone in your mistakes, God is still here, He is still present. His will might have allowed the mistake to burn you, but His peace and His strength will allow you to make it through to the other side.
You see, it is on the other side that we can look back at our past mistakes, see where we went wrong and adapt for the future. One thing I know about my future is that it is in the Safest Hands in the Business.
Where is your future?
Peace!
===TLP===
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