Learn From Your Mistakes

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Sisters in Christ Worldwide

Probably the biggest mistake of my life was something I did after I was already born again. Even though I had walked with Christ for a while already, I turned away from God and that’s when it happened. I sinned in a way I had never done before. It was big and it weighed heavily on me. I carried that burden with me for years.

I know that God forgives us our sins when we are born again but for some reason to me it was always more about the things I did before I was saved. After I became a Christian I should have known better. I shouldn’t have sinned like that.

Those are the thoughts that were troubling me, and even though I knew that God had forgiven me as soon as I confessed my sin to Him and asked for His forgiveness, I struggled for years to forgive myself.

After all, shouldn’t I have been a new creation?

“Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” (2 Corinthians 5:17)

But here is the great thing about God:

Yes, we were made a new creation the minute we were born again. That means that we are dead to sin so we don’t have to carry the burdens of our sins around anymore. No matter if those were sins from our old life or our new Christian life. Sin leads to death and since Christ won the victory over death, we are also dead to it.

We get to be a new creation in Christ every day when we wake up and tell Jesus “Ok, Lord, let’s do this again. I might have failed yesterday, but with your help I will do better today!”

So learn from your mistakes, but don’t let them weigh you down. God already forgot about them the minute you confessed them to Him!

Decide today that you will be all He created you to be. You will be a new creation in Him.

Jelena Anderson

“If others don’t use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don’t use your gifts, they get cheated.” ~Rick Warren~

Lord, I thank You for giving me a new chance every single day! I pray that You will help me today so that I can be better than I was yesterday. Help me to be all You created me to be. Amen.