God Doesn’t Make Mistakes
Numbers 23:19-20 (New Living Translation)
19 God is not a man, so he does not lie.
He is not human, so he does not change his mind.
Has he ever spoken and failed to act?
Has he ever promised and not carried it through?
20 Listen, I received a command to bless;
God has blessed, and I cannot reverse it!
2 Samuel 22:31 (New Living Translation)
31 “God’s way is perfect.
All the Lord’s promises prove true.
He is a shield for all who look to him for protection.
Psalm 138:8 (King James Version)
8The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works of thine own hands
As I sat on the edge of my bed earlier today, I look back over my life. I began to wonder about all the mistakes I made in my life and all that had gone wrong. I began to feel less than in the perfect zone, if you know what I mean. As I began to meditate further I found myself praying and asking for help to follow the path that God ordained for me and not my own path. I could hear in the midst of my prayer “I don’t make any mistakes.” I found myself saying I wasn’t saying you, I was saying me. In that moment in dawned on me, what if many of the things that I labeled mistakes were all apart of God’s learning curb for me. What if the things that we stumbled through and fall down in were, an allowance, what if it were God allowing us to go through things in order for us to be perfected, prepped or taught to get us to a places we would never arrive at if we had not gone through those events.
I remember speaking with a friend some weeks back, and I remember a statement that was made during that conversation, when they said that they felt they had been in a preparation period, and that the hell that they had encountered was to prepare them for the heaven that was to be in their lives. At the time the statement struck, me, but not as deeply as it did today as I reflected upon those words again, realizing that we all have a journey, and if we believe that our lives ore ordained by God that the things we encounter even those things that hurt are lesson, nuggets of wisdom to add to our lives and to train us for our ultimate plan and purpose. I know individuals right now that are in a place that are thinking because they were not born in the best of circumstances that they were a mistake, but God does not make mistakes. He is perfect in all His ways. If He allowed us to be here, it is for destiny and purpose, for success and a future that gives Him Glory. It is in our weakness that He is made perfect. Truly Greater is He that is in us than He that is in the world…
Perspective is an empowering element. If we know that God is perfect and we can realize the plan He has for us is perfect for our needs; that every smooth path and bumpy road is all perfect, for what God needs to do in our lives. Even in the midst of our struggles realize that the perfection of God outweighs the pressures of the day, and that ultimately if we are allowing God preeminence in our life He is perfecting our way, and perfecting us to live in His love and Grace which is the greatest example of His perfection towards us! Remember even the things the enemy designed to destroy, hurt or maim us God has the ability to turn around to bless us, elevate us, or place us as an example for the world to see of just how Perfect He is!
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