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)
