THE CALMING

To learn a lesson from any mistake is generally far more beneficial than to learn nothing and keep making the same mistake over and over. Yet, I can think in my own life where I made some mistake and still made the same choice again. I tried to avoid the image on my forehead of the word "stupid."

There are, of course, many reasons we do things that are completely irrational and harmful to our well being. I'm grateful that despites such errors and flaws in our nature, God still grants us grace in so many situations.

That is providing such grace will in some way help to guide us eventually to the truth no matter how long it takes. Then all the chaos is given light by the power of the Holy Spirit and we can look back and say, "Thank you Lord, I get it now."

Without that light, without the pure touch of God's leading, there will never be any calm to the chaos. It just becomes another vicious cycle of sin that never ends in blessing. That doesn't mean we necessarily will react accordingly no matter how many times in the scriptures we see others take this journey with predictable results.

This last week was a very interesting week for me. I was contacted by this agency that I had filed a complaint with regarding this person I had done business with who ended up breaking the law. According to the investigator the person I did business with claimed to not be aware what the individual had done was illegal.

I don't think the investigator believed that excuse any more than I did. But now the investigator will begin the long process of sorting through the lies and facts to get to the truth. And this coming week when I meet with the person, I will certainly share the truth that I know.

What will happen ultimately is to me in the Lord's hands. However, I do have a feeling the person who was breaking the law and had been doing so for years, will not find any calm in the chaos.

Perhaps at some point God gave this person a chance to choose. I have seen that many times where he will place and obstacle to get a person to pause and rethink such behavior

In this case it didn't do any good. The person just keep following this willful path of sin. Now will come the sad time when instead of learning from the sin, there will only come consequences.

We all make mistakes and we all sin. But hopefully our journey leads at some point to other than more sin.

As with all of God's truths, some will embrace them and others will reject them. Sooner or later heartache comes to the one too stiff-necked and proud to listen when there is no other choice.