Christians Learn from Mistakes

 

Christian or no Christian, there is value sure in making mistakes which none but the careful ones will ever know. Hence it is a blithering mistake for a Christian to avoid asking him/herself, what mistake he/she is making.  To hold fast to it that what we assume is mistake-free is very badly wrong.  Your refusing to admit to yourself, or to others that you’re incorrect is no  better choice; meaning that you just must be ready to learn from past mistakes.

 

It is good to trust in your judgment, but you equally need to verify your stance because the process of verification enhances your learning. It pays to know that it doesn’t matter what mistake you make often, but it is a matter of concern about how often you make the same mistake.

 

Self-opinionating, stubbornness, or blatant pride most of the time is responsible.  When one, two, three or more persons show signs of hesitation in connection with your steps you’d be better for it if you do a rethink and escape the mistake of a mistaken decision.

 

Several days gone by, I noticed a woman in a hot argument.  While four persons labored to point to her that her position on the point of argument was wrong she stuck to her guns.  Why it was so difficult for her to see the superior reasoning of others was a matter quite beyond understanding.

 

Just why may one not be ready to admit one’s mistakes?  May be it's because of pride, over bloated self-worth, ego.  You think you have an image to uphold.  You feel that your security is threatened as you agree you can, and always do it flawlessly.  What a consuming assumption! Stubbornness.  Rather than bury a dead horse you stick by the belief that flogging it will spring up a new one. Mistake and more mistakes.

 

You mightn’t want to face the grim truth that for whatever it’s worth people already know your mistake.  Your admitting it causes them no surprise; it offers them a balm of relief.  “Oh he knows!” they’ll exclaim.

 

Accept your mistakes.  Quit pretending.  Drop being hard-headed so you can embrace the good course of learning.  Learn to know that failure is the unavoidable ingredient for success, the necessary price for progress.  Is anybody, or situation perfect?  No, not you nor me nor what happened a moment ago.  So the cycle continues.

 

Place your weight behind the insistence that your sole interest is that you must learn from your past inadequacies of interpretive judgment.  You never learn when all you do is striving and scheming to avoid failure when there is good course to admit it.  Guess what?  You end up falling into making the same mistake, now and again.  There is scant wisdom from success, but admitting failure opens you to limitless learning options if you’re willing to tap into them.  So, the choice is yours Christians and the religious world.

 

By Enamudu Ikhofua