I wish we more frequently stepped outside our bodies and viewed ourselves in different light. I've learned once you get a really good look at yourself and the position you're standing in without being partial to it, makes admitting your wrong slightly easier. If your capable of doing that, then I believe picking up where you left off as far as growing goes, is somewhat easier.
However, in order to do that you have to be willing to make changes in your life that are necessary. You have to strive after God and want what he wants for your life. You have to admit when your wrong and see every situation in life as an opportunity to grow. We only have one life to live. Our days are numbered, we should do the most with the time we have been given.
i whole-heartedly agree! if you can own up to your faults and take responsibility for them then you have a lot of maturity. the next step after that (which i find highly important and is my main concern) is when you have your faults how do you react to them? do you look at what you did wrong and see what you could have done better? do you learn from the mistake you made and avoid it in the future? these kind of things i mean... all in all though i understand and second this.
ReplyDeletewhen you find a fault in yourself it's imperative that you don't try to justify it. we all have that problem no matter how mature we are or how hard we try to convince ourselves that it's ok. what i try to accomplish when i find myself at fault is stopping the whole justification process and admitting i'm wrong or that i did something wrong.
ReplyDeletethen i look at the correct way i should have responded to the situation, like you said. my spanish teacher always tells me that nine times out of ten you have to get the answer wrong before you can get it right. and that standing in front of class saying the wrong answer, will always make you remember the right one. so i think that when we determine what we should have done or how we should have responded to a certain situation, we are actually preventing future problems from happening because we've learned how to respon correctly to that situation, and that situation always has the possibility of turning up again. so we're eliminating future problems and stepping onto the next blox of disaster so to speak.
so all in all admiting we're wrong humbles us.
ReplyDeletefinding where we went wrong gives our brains more depth.and being able to learn from our failures makes us grow, become more mature, and helps us to be better examples to those who are watching.
for those of us that know how and actually do. i pity those that do not or are in denial or stubborn refusal. they only hurt themselves.
ReplyDeleteamen to that sister, hopefully they can learn before they meet our Savior. otherwise that tear jerking moment where God lets us have it with everything we've done is going to be worse that it could have been. learning from failure= importance.
ReplyDeleteyeah i need to make sure i'm not one of those people myself versus simply point the finger to someone else and when i do that i not only point 3 fingers at myself, but one at God (if you catch my hand visual)
ReplyDeletewould that be the thumb or pinky pointed at God? it makes all the difference in the world ha-ha. i have issues, -points a finger at self-
ReplyDeletethumb. index finger facing opposing person and remaining 3 fingers at one's self. we all have these things we call "issues"
ReplyDeleteissues are what makes us human:P
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