Do you sometimes feel like you are a mistake? Maybe you ‘think’ you might have been born in the wrong time… or maybe born into the wrong family… or maybe in the wrong country? Maybe? Not. God doesn’t make mistakes so you can’t be one! However, you have free will which means you can choose to make the wrong decisions which could place you in the wrong place and at the wrong time. But at the time you made the choice(s), it was based on your values, attitudes, etc. at the moment of deciding.
If you honestly do believe that where you are is a mistake – then what are you going to do about this? Some people will only whine. Others will do the ‘stiff upper lip’ act. Actually the reality is – you are where you are. If you don’t like the location – move. However, you can’t change the time and you can’t change your family – but you can always change your attitude. And what’s the mistake about you? Circumstances, people, work, what is the mistake?
After you finish moaning have you ever considered that God has you where you are for a reason? I’ve always loved the story of Esther (4:14) who discovered that she was who she was and where she was… for just a time as this. So are you. That’s why you aren’t a mistake, you have purpose, you have
meaning but you also have to choose to be available. Esther could have chosen to not accept what she was asked to do – so can you. But don’t say you never knew – we always know.
But maybe you believe that you lost your chance to be of value, that your opportunity came and you ‘blew’ it somehow.The ‘saving grace’ in this is that I honestly believe that if we have missed something significant for our lives then God has a way of bringing a new, similar opportunity back around for us. Granted, the missed opportunity is gone – someone else will have accepted because whatever it was needed to be done. But… a new opportunity will present itself. Simply because you ‘made’ a mistake doesn’t mean that you are a mistake.
…but, what do you think? what do you believe?
