Sack of Failures
Max Lucado in his book, Six Hours One Friday, wrote a chapter called "Fatal Failures." The chapter spoke to me as I've had my share of failures and one in particular that feels like it was fatal, at least professionally. On page 58, Lucado writes, "What do you do with your failures? Our mistakes come to us as pebbles, small stones that serve as souvenirs of our stumbles. We carry them in our hands, and soon our hands are full. We put them in our pockets and soon our pockets bulge. We place them in a bag and put it over our shoulder; the burlap scratches and chaps. And soon the bag of yesterday's failures is so heavy we drag it...Nothing drags more stubbornly than a sack of failures."
Lucado continues on page 66, "Each one different. No two alike. None identical...He (God) had created people for splendor. They had settled for mediocrity. He had formed them with love. They had scarred each other with hate."
I find it interesting that God created us to be loving individuals, unique and one-of-a-kind, but what does much of our society resent today? People that don't want to be like everyone else. These individuals that don't want to wear, eat, drive, read or listening to what everyone else their age is wearing, eating, driving, reading or listening to are consider strange, loners, odd, even weird. Often Christians do not want to profess their faith. Why? They too feel the "peer pressure" and don't want people to think they are wingnuts, bizarre, over-the-top, or lunatics.
That being said, "What is the single most fatal mistake I can make in my life?" How about not professing my faith and having my friends and family members miss the chance to choose heaven and go to hell. Everything else, all other mistakes, really don't carry any weight in the light of eternity. KT
Lucado continues on page 66, "Each one different. No two alike. None identical...He (God) had created people for splendor. They had settled for mediocrity. He had formed them with love. They had scarred each other with hate."
I find it interesting that God created us to be loving individuals, unique and one-of-a-kind, but what does much of our society resent today? People that don't want to be like everyone else. These individuals that don't want to wear, eat, drive, read or listening to what everyone else their age is wearing, eating, driving, reading or listening to are consider strange, loners, odd, even weird. Often Christians do not want to profess their faith. Why? They too feel the "peer pressure" and don't want people to think they are wingnuts, bizarre, over-the-top, or lunatics.
That being said, "What is the single most fatal mistake I can make in my life?" How about not professing my faith and having my friends and family members miss the chance to choose heaven and go to hell. Everything else, all other mistakes, really don't carry any weight in the light of eternity. KT
A rock formation on the island of Aruba called the Gorilla. Can you see it? That is what we carry on our backs when we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we have made, unload, and move on.
Matthew 11:28 (Jesus said,) “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
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