JULY 20, 2012
Blunders
To Wonders
Read: John 21:15-19
Turn us
back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored. —Lamentations
5:21
Artist James
Hubbell says, “Mistakes are gifts.” Whenever he’s working
on a project and
something goes wrong, he doesn’t start over. He looks
for a way to use the
mistake to make something better. None of us can
avoid making blunders, and all
of us have favorite ways of dealing with
them. We may try to hide them or to
correct them or to apologize for
them.
We do that with our
sin sometimes too. But God doesn’t throw us away
and start over. He redeems us
and makes us better.
The apostle Peter
tended to do and say whatever seemed best at the
moment. He has been referred
to as an “impetuous blunderer.” In his
fear after Jesus was arrested, Peter
claimed three times that he didn’t
know Jesus! Yet later, on the basis of
Peter’s three declarations of love,
Jesus turned Peter’s humiliating denial
into a wonderful occasion of
restoration (John 21). Despite Peter’s flawed
past, Jesus restored him
to ministry with these words: “Feed My sheep” (v.17).
If you have made a
“blunder” so big that it seems irreversible, the
most important matter is
whether you love Jesus. When we love Him,
Jesus can turn our most serious
blunders into awesome wonders.
Lord, I’m so human
and make foolish mistakes.
And worse yet, I
willfully sin against You.
Please forgive me,
change me, restore me,
and use me for Your
name’s sake. Amen.
God can change our blunders into wonders.
Source:
Our Daily Bread 2012
