King Solomon, the wisest man to ever walk the face of the earth once said (Proverbs 24:16): "A righteous person falls seven times and gets up" Welcome to being human. So you fell? Get up, brush yourself off and keep on moving. There is only one thing much worse than messing up. It's holding on to it afterwards. Everyone fails. The best just get up and turn the page. They don't live in the past. They learn from it and move on. Don't let your mistakes drag you down permanently. We all have aspirations in life, whether its academic, financial, health or relationships. There are accomplishments we hope to achieve. But guess what, we are human and so we fail. we trip, stumble and fall. How many times do we drop the ball on something, miss a deadline, bomb a meeting, fail a test, forget an important date, indulge in something that was wrong or do something selfish that hurt those around us? When we are doing it we are so driven but once it's done, we realize it's wrong! And that's when we choose to either allow our failures to drag us down further by giving up just to try to rationalize our actions or try to blame it somebody else... or STOP. Realize it was wrong, learn something productive and then turn the page. King Solomon's distinction is not who makes mistakes, it's who get up afterwards. Choose to get up, and turn the page.
This is an article by the TBN ministries it encouraged me and I thought of sharing
wow, Sharon, this is so true.
ReplyDeletethe issue is not how many times we fall, because as humans, we are bound to do so but what matters is what we do after falling and that is what will determine the end result.
jamani thanks so much for sharing this.
Rossey