Mistakes by the Dozen

I once purchased organic eggs, dropping them on the blacktop between my cart and blue Jetta.

The other night, I served an undercooked roast at seven in the evening. Pasta anyone?

I lost my wedding band–that story requires more space and is perhaps TMI.

This week, I dropped my gluten-free flour mix onto the kitchen floor. It free floated behind closed cupboards and even the dishwasher door.

My list could go on, and yes, most of my mistakes are involving food. As the above list reveals, two out of four are food related—my poor husband. But as I toss around my past mistakes, I don’t want to choose ones that would bore you–or make me blush.

“Blush,” I say?

Some mistakes are from my clumsiness, my limbs betraying me with eggs or flour. But some of my mistakes are choices to go against God’s perfect laws for living.

Yes, I said laws. Like the law of gravity. The eggs fell, the flour fell, and one time I fell. That one ended in the emergency room–another story for another time.

When I dropped those eggs, they became a mix of broken shells, and yokes staring up at me from their opened carton.

Proverbs 24:16 tells us that we are to get back up after falling, again, and again.

The biggest mistake is not getting up.

If you faint in the day of adversity,
    your strength is small. (Proverbs 24:10 ESV)

Who wants us to stay down?

Satan does! He is the biggest lawbreaker of all. He wanted to be bigger and better than God. He holds our mistakes against us, ready to take aim at any time.

But God.

Did you notice in the verse that God says you and I have strength? The Word tells us our “strength” is small if we stumble in times of adversity.

Picture a bodybuilder. Are they going to faint at lifting a five-pound dumbbell for sixteen reps? No way! That would be silly.

This verse, telling me my strength is weak if I stumble when hard things come, has been a wake-up call for me. Depending on God in all things is a must, but hasn’t he prepared us for today?

I have needed this scriptural vegetable. How bout you?

We need scriptural vegetables.

You’ve got this. I’ve got this. We have a track record of depending on our Creator. He had brought us through much.

We are not like the shells holding in the egg, but like the bodybuilder who has seen many a day building upon our faith.

As for those reminders of your mistakes, we all have them; in God’s view, they are as far as the east is from the west. So let’s stop listening to the lies of Satan and listen to God’s loving truth.

God, thank you for the reminder that I do have strength. Situations can look too big to handle, but I have a long track record of walking by faith. Reveal to me when I am listening to the lies vs listening to what you have called me to. Amen.

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Until next week, keep Walking on Mustard Seeds,

Michele Marie Weisman

“Scripture quotations are from The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.”

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