Living Through a Bad Decision

Living Through a Bad Decision

Recently I think that the Lord has been teaching me to live through bad decisions. Some of the decisions were made by me and others but it seems like I have had to live the consequences through them both. But I have learned some valuable lessons through them.

First of all with my own blunders I have used the mistakes as an opportunity to grow and not do them again. I have seen the pain and problems that they have caused and choose to find ways to never go down that path again.

For others blunders I have decided some things are not necessary to punish others but just take the heat and move on. I have also learned which things to own and others to just give up. Life is too short to always seem to win.

I am also learning about myself. Mistakes made cannot be fixed like a Brady Bunch Sitcom in just half an hour but they can be repaired. Some errors either caused by myself or others just take time.

Through faults of your friends you can grow too. One of my friends is going through a life change she has not told me about. I choose to be nice and stay with her even though I really don’t agree with her decision. Recently I was involved in some decision making that ticked off a few people. Part of it was stuff I owned but a lot of it was others decisions and I got to be the lucky one to brunt the situation. It really showed me who some of whom I considered my friends were not. That really hurt but I am grateful it happened. I also saw people who stuck by me and that was good.

I have learned that pain can be a great teacher. Now that some of my mistakes or problems that have incurred in my life are somewhat behind me I can use them to help others. It feels good to talk about my humanness. When an athlete says no pain no gain I also think that is true about life.

Last the best part of being a person in life is having a personal relationship with Christ. Through our pain we can remember that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ bore the ultimate pain of our sins and decisions by dying on the cross for us. In conclusion Isaiah 53:4 says Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, a punishment for his own sins! Ultimately with Christ we are not alone.