12. It is hard to admit wrong.
We don’t like to be wrong. It can be very hard to admit when we’ve made a mistake. Satan is counting on that. We can think it would be much easier to lie to ourselves once more, and continue down the wrong path. It may be wrong, but that way we can at least believe we are right.
How many have kept making mistakes simply because they could never admit they’d made one? Pride can fill us, and compel us to keep moving in the wrong direction because it is unthinkable to ever consider we might’ve been wrong. We can’t be wrong because we can’t imagine what it will do to us if we admit to ourselves that a decision we made, no matter how big or small, was a mistake.
Some mistakes shake us so much that we aren’t certain we can ever recover from them. Even admitting mistakes can make us feel unworthy, untrustworthy, and like an overall bad person. This is exactly how Satan wants us to feel. Just because he helped us get on the wrong path doesn’t mean he has any reservations about making us feel bad when we see through our mistakes.
This can only be overcome by trusting in the Lord. We cannot let our mistakes destroy us, or those around us. We cannot allow them to make us useless. When King David realized what an awful thing he’s done by having Uriah killed so he could marry Bathsheba he did not let it destroy him. He repented, and wrote some of the greatest Psalms recorded in the Bible as he did so. When Peter denied Jesus three times he went out, and wept bitterly, but that is not how his story ends. He became the rock the church was built on, and was the first to realize that Jesus died for both Jews and Gentiles. David, Peter, and so many others have come back from their mistakes, and done absolutely amazing things with their lives. The same can happen with any of us if we can overcome our mistakes.
If God enabled us to realize our mistake it is likely because we can fix it. It may not be possible to get back the days, months, or even years we spent running from God, but it is still possible to serve Him. It is possible to follow Him now.
Admit it when you’re wrong. It will be okay. God will forgive you, and you must not carry guilt over it around with you. God forgives, and we cannot continue to let our guilt over forgiven sin destroy us. Guilt over big mistakes is hard to get over. God can help.
Being in the midst of admitting a mistake can be hard, but trust me when I say it will get better. Know that it’s possible God needed you to make that mistake so He could set you back on the right path. Sometimes he lets us fall so we can get back up on more sturdy footing. Remember that, and get over mistakes. Admit they are mistakes, and move on.
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