Yeah you screwed up! So what’s new, your in good company.
So has everybody else that’s ever walked by faith. Some just hide it better than others and the ones pointing the fingers usually have more to hide than you do. Allow me to name drop. Does the name David ring any bells? I love David because he is the quintessential example of how God’s grace operates so that we can keep on getting up after we have blown it. David murdered a guy and took his wife!
Then God sent a prophet to confront David’s sin ;
2 Samuel 12:1
1 The LORD sent Nathan to David. When he came to him, he said, "There were two men in a certain town, one rich and the other poor. 2 The rich man had a very large number of sheep and cattle, 3 but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food, drank from his cup and even slept in his arms. It was like a daughter to him.
4 "Now a traveler came to the rich man, but the rich man refrained from taking one of his own sheep or cattle to prepare a meal for the traveler who had come to him. Instead, he took the ewe lamb that belonged to the poor man and prepared it for the one who had come to him."
5 David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan, "As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die! 6 He must pay for that lamb four times over, because he did such a thing and had no pity."
7 Then Nathan said to David, "You are the man!
So you blew it, big time, little time , all the time, any time!
You keep hearing that phrase over and over in your head “You are the man!”
You listen to it so much you begin to believe that your sin is bigger than God. That’s exactly what the enemy wants you to think. The objective is to get you and I discouraged by keeping us focused on our sin. We begin to forget that sin, for the believer, was destroyed on the cross.
Romans 8:1
So those who are believers in Christ Jesus can no longer be condemned.
No I’m not saying that we have permission to run out there and follow through on what ever thought the wind blows our way. What Jesus did on the cross for anybody who will believe it, yeah I mean anybody. Use your imagination you’ll be surprised who God would call his own, that includes you and I. What Jesus did on the cross provided for us the grace (undeserved favor) to get up from our mistakes BIG or small, say I’m sorry (please forgive me Lord I blew it) and move on.
I’m not saying all mistakes are reconcilable with the people that are adversely effected by bad decisions. What I am saying is that Jesus stands ready with a hand extended to pick us up and start with us right where we're at. Getting back on our feet. That’s always the goal when we fail. Jesus is not waiting with a God sized stick to beat you into submission.
It is God's kindness that is trying to lead you to him and change the way you think and act? Romans 2:4b
God’s Kindness over ruled in David’s situation. God over ruled in our situations when Jesus paid the price for us on the cross.
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
2 Samuel 12:1 reference © NIV 2002
