Thursday January 3, 2013

God can change our blunders into wonders.

 

Read John 21:15-19

 

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 favourate 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.

 

Lord, I’m so human and make foolish mistakes.

And worse yet, I wilfully sin against You.

Please forgive me, change me, restore me,

And use me for Your name’s sake.   Amen

 

Prayer:

¥ We all have friends and/or family that need to hear the message of peace from God. List those people in your life and pray that God would give you an opportunity to share with each one. Pray for the salvation of each one.

¥ Pray that the church would recapture its mission mandate from God (Matthew 28:18-20) and that each believer would be seeking to make disciples in his/her own world of influence. Ask God to bring in the harvest by allowing us more and more opportunities to share that message people.