"Marilla, isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Mistakes are part of life.
Regardless of how we try, each day we will slip up, take a wrong turn or all together "drop our baskets". We are not perfect and our lives are surrounded by the sin of this world. Sin and mistakes are two peas in the same pod.
Sin infiltrates our lives in a variety of ways. Sometimes we sin by consciously choosing to turn away from what God has asked of us. And sometimes we sin by following the simple temptations of life. We make these mistakes by listening to the world or to our own selfish desires rather than focusing on what God wants us to do.
Take your evil deeds out of my sight;
stop doing wrong.
stop doing wrong.
Isaiah 1:16
At times it can feel overwhelming to think of how we each, individually, fall short of God's expectations for us. The frustration and disappointment might even cause one to turn away from God completely assuming that he or she could never measure up to what God requires.
In reality, while we live on this earth, we will never fully measure up to what God intends for our lives to be, because we will consistently fall into the mistakes of everyday living, but God has a solution.
Though your sins are like scarlet,
they shall be as white as snow
they shall be as white as snow
Isaiah 1:18
We will never be able to avoid mistakes - to avoid the sin of this world - but with God's help and the grace of Jesus we will be able to turn away from as much sin as possible, trusting that God's love and forgiveness will wash each of us clean as snow.
Mistakes are part of life, but with God's help we will find that each day can have fewer than the day before until the great day when we are resting safely in Jesus's arms and we are free with no mistakes.
Scripture
Quote of the Day
"Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And he invites us all to forgive each other."
Lewis B. Smedes - Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve
"Forgiveness is God's invention for coming to terms with a world in which, despite their best intentions, people are unfair to each other and hurt each other deeply. He began by forgiving us. And he invites us all to forgive each other."
Lewis B. Smedes - Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve
Question of the Day
What mistake that you made yesterday (or last week or last year) can you ask God to help you avoid in 2012?
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