My Daily Devotional

Learn From Our Mistakes

“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”
Hebrews 12:11

I can remember many times where I have made mistakes either as a child, in my family and also in my business life which I have been disciplined for. I am not alone as we have all made mistakes in all aspects of our personal and business lives which we have been disciplined for. All of us are also going to continue to make mistakes in the future as we are not perfect and mistakes will happen. The real question that we need to ask ourselves when we make mistakes is how we handle our mistakes. When others do something to harm us we are to forgive them. When we make mistakes we need to forgive ourselves. We need to move on and need to learn from our mistakes as they can become valuable life lessons instead of being crippling defeats. Failure is not something that we need to feel guilty about, as it is a part of life. God tells us that we are not perfect and will make mistakes, and I believe He wants us to learn and grow from these times of disappointments. The scripture above provides much wisdom that tells us that even though our mistake and discipline may be hard to take at the time that it will produce a greater harvest later on in our lives. We need to learn from our mistakes, and each time we fail we will learn just a little more. Each of our mistakes is simply a stepping stone that we can use to build and improve ourselves. We need to use each failure and mistake as our stepping stones to becoming more Christ like, and becoming more of the person Jesus wants us to be. These mistakes and failures may just be God’s way to show us that we were on the wrong path, and that He placed this detour in our path to get us back on the right road.