Learn From It

I think we all have moments when you feel a bit stupid.
Stupid not because you are dumb, but stupid because we made a wrong call on something.
I can certainly put my hand up for this!
From silly comments I have inadvertently made to actions in the heat of the moment.

One of my boys had to learn this last week when he over-shared with someone something that was very personal to him.
At times like my boy and I face, you can make it so much worse by running away from it. Or dwelling on it. Or trying to over fix something...
I think the key for us is to Learn From It.
To see what we did or what happened as all part of learning and growing and getting closer to the person God believes we can actually be.
Beating yourself up over something only achieves to beat yourself up...nothing more usually.

Peter was one of Jesus closest friends and just at a time when Jesus seemed to be the most complimentary to him, Peter mucks up with some comments and gets rebuked by Jesus.
Jesus later on tells Peter that he would deny Him at the most painful moment of His time on earth.
Of course he denied he would deny Him. And the rest is history.
Jesus later appears to Peter on a beach, cooks him breakfast and lifts him up again.
Why did Christ pick Peter...because he know he would learn from it...

King David is pretty popular among Bible readers and preachers looking for great examples of faith and action. And yet this man wasn't perfection itself.  He had flaws.
But he also showed he had an ability to learn from it.
David seems to show this ability to recognise (eventually sometimes) where he was wrong in his thoughts, motives or actions, and put things right. The ability to learn from the experience.

So what sort of person do you want to be?
Someone known for making mistakes every now with the ability to learn from it?
Or someone who makes mistakes destined to keep repeating them. Destined to be defined by those mistakes.

I believe that God has picked you because you have the ability to learn from your mistakes and not simply be defined by them.
Whatever has happened to you today, yesterday or whenever...
Learn From It.

Something to think about...