Life Should Teach You! 11-1–26

Welcome to the word for the week. Making mistakes in life is normal. It is unavoidable, sometimes needed, and can really transform your life if you learn from it. We all have made countless mistakes in our lifetime. What you learn from them is what matters. You will see some people not learn a thing and others will learn a lot. You will not have to guess at who is who. Those who do not learn will continue to make the same mistakes over and over again. Those who do learn will either never repeat those mistakes or they will be far and few in between. I have learned on this journey that God gives us free will which we call choice. One can choose to grow or stay the same, but the choice is up to us.

There is nothing to judge or criticize when someone did not know something would cost them. That could be any of us in a ton of different things. Sometimes, it is not the mistake that is the problem. The problem is what are you going to do after realizing you made that mistake? What will it take for you not to repeat that same thing again? What lesson has it taught you and will it last a lifetime? Let’s get a little more blunt here for a moment. How does one keep doing something that has been nothing but trouble for them? How does one keep making the same choices that lead to nothing but destruction? What is it about whatever they keep doing that keeps pulling them no matter what? At what point does that person finally get up from the things that simply keep tearing them down?

We can help people in a multitude of ways and they can still keep making the same mistakes. I will not even begin to mention some of the things as they are truly hurtful to those who feel like helpless witnesses to their actions. Some things one can do hurts everyone around them and it never hurts them. I have seen people who get so comfortable in their actions until they no longer feel the pain of what they are doing. The enemy stays busy! The further one sinks into the same things, the less they begin to care. The enemy is so clever until he can open doors for you while you are deep in your sin and make you start to believe God is not upset with you at all. You can actually start to think your life is better from not being so strict. If there is one thing the enemy is clever at, it is making dark appear to be light. You can be in a place and not even know you are there.

This brings us to the last point. What does it take for you to learn from your mistakes? At what point do you see things for what they truly are? I cannot tell you how many times I have seen people in a state of what is the use of changing. Here is the reason why. You can get up from whatever. The only thing one cannot get up from is blasphemy. Trust me, it truly takes a lot to get there. Anything else you can get past. You can grow from it. You can be better afterwards and you can help others. Pride is what usually keeps one from getting up. You have to admit your mistakes before you can be freed from them. You have to want things to be gone before you will actually do anything for that to happen. The bible calls the enemy the accuser of the  brethren. He will do anything to keep any of us down for as long as he can. Never forget John 10:10. The enemy does come to steal, kill, and destroy but never forget that Jesus said He has to come that we may have life and have it more abundantly. The prodigal son came to his senses and went back to his father’s house. What about you?

May the Lord continue to bless and keep you in His grace,
Bishop Carlos J. Lennon