Hello Everyone,
Today I want to talk about an important subject - making mistakes. We have all done it right? For most of us when we make a mistake (if it's a big one) we feel pretty bad about it - especially when it hurts someone else. Have you ever said something to someone that really hurt their feelings? Even if you were provoked and they had it coming, it doesn't necessarily feel good after you do it right?
I know that I have laid in bed at night sometimes and couldn't sleep rethinking about some mistake I made and wishing I had done something differently. Have you ever been in financial trouble or maybe your making a bad grade in school. I know that as an adult I have had financial trouble before. I sit and think things like what if I hadn't spent that money or what if I had saved that money. I shouldn't have bought that TV or I shouldn't have gone on vacation. Here's the interesting part though. No matter how many hours and hours I thought about how I should have done things differently, the problem was still there. I realized that I could not go back and unspend money.
The real question is what do I do now. He might not have said this first but the words of Bob Nichols, the pastor of a great church here in Fort Worth, "If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging!" If you are doing something that is causing you problems, quit doing it. If you are in debt, quit spending money on stuff you don't need. If you are making bad grades in school, quit waiting for your grades to go up on their own. Start studying.
I heard a story about a mule that fell into a well. He found himself in a deep hole. The mule was very old and the well was dry. The owner of the mule decided that he would just bury the mule and be done with it. He got a shovel and a couple of his friends and they started filling in the well with dirt to cover up the mule. After a little while, the owner looked over the lip of the well as his friends were still throwing dirt in the well. To his amazement, the mule wasn't covered up. Each time his friends threw a load of dirt on the mule's back, he would shake it off and then step up on it. The mule was raised higher and higher until eventually he walked out of the well.
Friends, if you find yourself in a place where you've made mistakes and wish things were different, don't spend time worrying or feeling guilty about your past mistakes. You can't change them. What you can change is your future. Stop feeling guilty about the past and through Jesus, start feeling great about your future. God has a good plan for your life.
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Today I want to talk about an important subject - making mistakes. We have all done it right? For most of us when we make a mistake (if it's a big one) we feel pretty bad about it - especially when it hurts someone else. Have you ever said something to someone that really hurt their feelings? Even if you were provoked and they had it coming, it doesn't necessarily feel good after you do it right?
I know that I have laid in bed at night sometimes and couldn't sleep rethinking about some mistake I made and wishing I had done something differently. Have you ever been in financial trouble or maybe your making a bad grade in school. I know that as an adult I have had financial trouble before. I sit and think things like what if I hadn't spent that money or what if I had saved that money. I shouldn't have bought that TV or I shouldn't have gone on vacation. Here's the interesting part though. No matter how many hours and hours I thought about how I should have done things differently, the problem was still there. I realized that I could not go back and unspend money.
The real question is what do I do now. He might not have said this first but the words of Bob Nichols, the pastor of a great church here in Fort Worth, "If you find yourself in a hole, quit digging!" If you are doing something that is causing you problems, quit doing it. If you are in debt, quit spending money on stuff you don't need. If you are making bad grades in school, quit waiting for your grades to go up on their own. Start studying.
I heard a story about a mule that fell into a well. He found himself in a deep hole. The mule was very old and the well was dry. The owner of the mule decided that he would just bury the mule and be done with it. He got a shovel and a couple of his friends and they started filling in the well with dirt to cover up the mule. After a little while, the owner looked over the lip of the well as his friends were still throwing dirt in the well. To his amazement, the mule wasn't covered up. Each time his friends threw a load of dirt on the mule's back, he would shake it off and then step up on it. The mule was raised higher and higher until eventually he walked out of the well.
Friends, if you find yourself in a place where you've made mistakes and wish things were different, don't spend time worrying or feeling guilty about your past mistakes. You can't change them. What you can change is your future. Stop feeling guilty about the past and through Jesus, start feeling great about your future. God has a good plan for your life.
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