There are times in life where random events or chance encounters are the Lord's way of telling you something that you need to hear. Most of the time it is only noticeable if you are looking for it, tiny little nudges, small blessings that to most people mean nothing but to you mean the world. Other times its red and blue flashing lights basically screaming your name and telling you what needs to be said.
This week I feel like I am being taught something. A random song, a chance encounter, and a history that haunts me has been repeatedly telling me the same thing.
In life is not how hard or how many times you fall that matters but it is how you pick yourself up and move on that defines a person.
I had a patent the last two days I worked that reminded me of this. He asked for a medication and I forgot to call the doctor and ask him about it. I went in the next day and apologized. He said "You know, the care that you have given the last two days has been so amazing that that one little mistake means nothing." Here I am just thinking about this mistake. How I am a horrible nurse because I forgot to call the doctor; all the while he can only remember how well he was cared for during his stay.
What mattered these last two days was not my forgetfulness but my attentiveness to this individual. What will be ETERNAL is the fact that after that statement he went on and asked me how I knew so much about God. THAT is what defines me.
A song we sang this last Sunday in church compounded this lesson. The song goes like this:
"You stood before my failure
And carried the cross for my shame
My sin weighed upon your shoulders
My soul now to stand"
He has already seen how far I have fallen. He already knows how far I will fall in the future. He has seen it all and yet He still took my sin and my failure and he died for me so I could stand next to Him. THAT is what defines me
I do not need to let the mistakes I have made, the sins I have struggled with, the presents I did not buy, the times I have fallen define who I am because I have Jesus waiting right there to pick me back up and redeem me.
