What To Do When You Mess Up
By soundmindandheart In Uncategorized On March 16, 2015
What Do You Do When You Mess Up?
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. NASB
One thing that I love from the television show, House, is his statement that everybody lies. While the character is being negative about people, he does have a good point. We are all human and we do mess up and often lie. Lies happen when we want others to think good of us or when we are afraid of how people would react to the truth.
Is it possible to always be honest? Can you be honest with people and not hurt or upset them? Can you keep your integrity in tact in this culture? With our over the top politically correct culture, it seems that we can offend people even when we do not mean any ill will towards them. Of course, I am thinking about many of the protests that have occurred in the last few years. I watch them on the news and wonder how did this situation happen? I believe that all lives matter not just black lives or Christian lives or Muslim lives.
Sometimes, it can feel like no matter what we do we are wrong or offensive to someone. Have you ever felt this way? So, we either just say nothing or get offended and become part of the problem.
I use what I call the heart check test on myself about such issues. For example, do I automatically think that a black or Muslim person will hurt me? I ask myself this and test it when the situation presents. I find that color or belief does not make a person hurt me. Do you know how I get hurt? Yes, by allowing someone to offend me or by assuming that they meant to hurt me. They do not have to be a specific color or religion to do so. The only person that I can change is myself. I am responsible for my thoughts and actions, not yours or anyone else’s. By accepting that I am the problem and also that I am the solution is the answer. I just cannot live in denial about what the problem is.
So, what is the problem? I watch the “perfect” people. You know the ones that always seem to get everything right and believe that they are right about everything. If I could just be as good as or as kind as or as giving as they are then I wouldn’t be so messed up. It is a mask that they wear because they do not have it together any more than you or I, they just play the part better. If they look like they have life all together then they believe that they win. When you refer back to the verse that I began with, it says all have sinned. This includes the perfect people.
Who can help us when we mess up? (I know that I will mess up because I am human. I may have even offended someone who read this blog.) God can help us. There is hope! He tells us so in:
1 John 1:9
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. NASB
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