Did you make a mistake?

I am generally a very careful, cautious, and well-prepared person. Especially while driving, I am always hyper-aware of my surroundings. My wife Jenny often says I’m the best and safest driver she knows. 🥰

I guess when you learn to drive in a city like Mumbai, you kind of have to be. 😅

That’s why it really bothers me when I make a mistake behind the wheel. Just the other day, I misjudged the width of a narrow passage, and the front tire hit the barricade. Thankfully, the car was fine, but it bothered me for days.

How do you react when you make a mistake?

For example…

• How do you feel after sending an email to the wrong person?
• Or snap at your kids in anger?
• Or forget to pay an important bill on time?
• Or miss your best friend’s birthday?

Most of the time, we don’t handle our mistakes well. We’re often riddled with guilt.

But if we think about it, mistakes—while frustrating—are actually precious. They are learning opportunities for us to become better. Someone once said, “Making mistakes just means learning faster.”

I challenge you to see your mistakes for what they really are: a step, a launching pad to learn more quickly and do better.

They’re not the end, they don’t change who you are, and they don’t define you.

If your mistakes warrant repentance and forgiveness, bring them to God!

Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. – 2 Corinthians 7:10

If, after doing so, you are still filled with regret, that means guilt has taken over.

Guilt is our way of punishing ourselves for the mistakes we’ve made. But that’s not what God wants for us.

God doesn’t want us to punish ourselves to erase our guilt. He punished his Son to cancel our guilt. – Byran Chapel

There is nothing that can condemn or accuse you any longer. Your mistakes aren’t meant to bury you in guilt but to help you grow.

So, lift your head and receive His grace and forgiveness, not condemnation!

Hey! You are a Chamatkar.

Cameron Mendes