FAITH

“A mistake doesn’t define you,” this is what my husband will say when someone veers off path.  So true this is.  Most people when they make a decision that is wrong or misguided they wish they wouldn’t have.  They would love to go back and correct the error before it became a full-blown mess.  However just as Joyce Meyer has said many times, “She turned her mess into a message,” and that she did.  She had years she questioned why, but then realized that the answers are many times held from us. 

A friend of mine sent me this poem this morning.

God’s purpose and plan

Is sometimes concealed,

But someday His purpose

Will be revealed.

Someday God’s wisdom

Will make it very plain

Why problems were permitted

And how he uses pain

Things thought illogical

Disease, tragedy, fear-

Will someday make sense

When God makes all things clear.

We’ll see the Lord’s purpose

From the Lords point of view,

And we’ll know the answers

 In ways we never knew

Until we’re home with God

Some answers must wait.

Until his plan unfolds

We are called to live by faith.

When faced with mistakes, messes and issues we must have faith.  Faith, that strong belief, having complete trust in Him who knows the path that we must follow.  The one who knows our pains and struggles.  The one that will bring us light at the end of the tunnel if and only if we trust and follow his guidance. 

Press on forward and turn your mess into a message.  Don’t let one mistake define you. You don’t need to know all the answers, just follow Him and have faith.