Artist
James Hubbell says, “Mistakes are gifts.” Whenever he’s working on a project
and something goes wrong, he doesn’t start over. He looks for a way to use the
mistake to make something better. None of us can avoid making blunders, and all
of us have favorite ways of dealing with them. We may try to hide them or to
correct them or to apologize for them.
We do
that with our sin sometimes too. But God doesn’t throw us away and start over.
He redeems us and makes us better.
The
apostle Peter tended to do and say whatever seemed best at the moment. He has
been referred to as an “impetuous blunderer.” In his fear after Jesus was
arrested, Peter claimed three times that he didn’t know Jesus! Yet later, on
the basis of Peter’s three declarations of love, Jesus turned Peter’s
humiliating denial into a wonderful occasion of restoration (John 21). Despite
Peter’s flawed past, Jesus restored him to ministry with these words: “Feed My
sheep” (v.17).
If you
have made a “blunder” so big that it seems irreversible, the most important
matter is whether you love Jesus. When we love Him, Jesus can turn our most
serious blunders into awesome wonders.
God can
change our blunders into wonders. (RBC)
