A mistake has a way of numbing our senses and emasculating us from the realities of the world around us. It leaves us lost in a world we do not own, understand or able to describe. Becoming so passive, nonchalant and non-existent because of a mistake can become so attractive, as everything appear dead.
In such a reclusive state, guilt heightens. You keep berating yourself, analysing the event, not for solution, but to be entrapped deeper in your misery. In all of these, you lose a major ingredient that mistakes offer, which is, the lessons to learn. A Psalmist said, "The punishment you brought me through was the best thing that could have happened to me, for it taught me your ways (Psalms 119:71 TPT)
To gain mastery over your mistakes, you've to pick up the lessons and redirection they offer. Mistakes actually indicate certain crucial fundamentals were neglected or overlooked. Those crucial fundamentals are the lessons you need to learn so as to avoid repetition. Why is this so? I'm glad you asked. The Psalmist has this to say, "The words you speak to me are worth more than all the riches and wealth in the whole world!" (Psalms 119: 72 TPT)
