One Wrong Move
Psalm 130:3-4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
3 If You, Lord, should keep account of and treat [us according to our] sins, O Lord, who could stand? 4 But there is forgiveness with You [just what man needs], that You may be reverently feared and worshiped.
How many times have we watched a movie and the bad guy or girl said, “one wrong move and you’re dead.” But how often in life have people made us to feel like, one wrong move in our lives and we are dead, or we are doomed to hell, or even less than a Christian or less than they are? Recently, I have been going through a season where I have been able to trace some events in my present life to past bad decisions or mistakes that I did not apply thought or time to. It has caused me to see how even though things occur in our past that sometimes we can connect the dots to the past. If we don’t remain prayerful and seek God’s wisdom about how to deal with these revelations we can find ourselves challenged in our thinking about how one wrong move that has led us to days, weeks, months and even years of struggle, trial and reorganization and rebuilding.
As I sat today and prayed I could hear one wrong move does not define who I have called you to be, or what your purpose is. Isn’t it funny how people will attempt to hold you a prisoner to your past mistakes, decisions, but God once we have asked for forgiveness keeps no record of wrong? Although the enemy may attempt to bring up things that keep us feeling bad or guilty, God has let it go, so why haven’t we? He does not keep score or keep a tally, so then why do we attempt to bury people for their one wrong move, when God has not buried us for ours? If we cannot identify mercy and God’s grace that has covered us in the wake of our many wrong moves and missteps, we are blind or just choosing to turn our heads from the truth in order to keep blaming others or ourselves. If we are thinking that our wrong moves, mistreatment of others and missteps are not as bad as someone else’s we may need to seek God’s wisdom, because the Bible reminds us that we have all fallen short of the Glory of God, and we must remember that sin is sin in God’s eyes. God has been kind enough even when we find that we have fallen down, to bend over and pick us up. God has provided for us even when we have been wasteful, and He has blessed us in spite of our deficiencies, and shortcomings. You see one wrong move is not the end of us, and it does not always take us out, but we have to remember to humble ourselves at God’s willingness to forgive us, keep us, to provide for us and to restore us and not to hold things over our heads, in order for us to do the same for others and even as it concerns ourselves.
No it is not okay for us to think just because God will forgive us that we should continue in sin, or do things out of the will of God because grace does run out; even more than this fact, is the fact that we should desire to be in God’s will and to do what he is asking of us. We should desire that each step that we take is ordered of the Lord and in He is in delight if our ways. One wrong move does not define us it is only when we choose to continue to do what is wrong, knowing what is right, or choose to hold the sins of another over their head, knowing that grace and mercy has been extended to us that our move can cause us pain and disdain!
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