Mistakes and Tragedies

At this time, my mind is consumed with wondering how people justify their actions and furthermore, why people do what they do. I can easily turn this around to myself though. Why do I make decisions knowing they are wrong? Why do I continually choose to walk in the opposite direction of what I should be doing?

It seems at this particular moment in my life that I and the people surrounding me are transfixed with making poor life decisions. It is an infectious disease that is spreading and cannot be stopped. It is our sin nature that we are letting overcome our mind, soul, spirit and entire being. It is more prevalent and more powerful than I could ever imagine.

Not only do we continually make the same mistakes over, which brings up the fact that it is no longer a mistake the second time but a conscious choice, but we full-well know that right path to pursue and turn our backs to it. Often times, we wait for a tragedy that will shake us to the core and throw us back onto the right path again, but then we seem to ignore these signs that God puts in our lives and try to justify our actions. We face hardships each day, but they only desensitize us more. How will we know when our life-altering tragedy is here?

The truth is that we should not wait for an explosion to shock us, but rather turn back to the Lord because He has always been there and has always been fighting for us. He can free us from our mistakes without a tragedy.

Are you waiting for an impossible tragedy to change you or do you have the strength to start over yourself?