“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.” ~ Albert Einstein
They say that hind sight is twenty-twenty. When we look back following a mistake we have made, we can clearly see where we went wrong. “If only I had known” we say. Did you ever stop to think that the mistakes of our past prepared us for the future? Albert was on base when he made this statement. There is another statement that we need to be aware of us as well. It comes from the Book of Hebrews in the Bible: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8)
The only bad thing about making mistakes is not learning from them and we continue to repeat them. The fact that Jesus is the same as He ever was is encouraging to those of us who have made mistakes in our lives and with our lives. His death on the Cross paid for the sins we committed yesterday. If we sin today, He will forgive us for those too. The question is: are we learning from our mistakes? Forgiveness is available for the mistakes we make but judgment is reserved for us if we never learn from them. As the Apostle Paul wrote, “How can we who have died to sin live any longer in it?” Our hope rests in the resurrected Christ not upon our goodness, but God is into forgiving sin, not excusing it.
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