The Differences Between Mistakes and Poor Choices

Many people do not understand the difference between a mistake and a choice.  Andy Andrews in this book The Noticer give us a great example.

“If you are lost, wandering through a forest in the dark, unable to see, unaware that a cliff is nearby, and you stumble off the cliff and break your neck, that is a mistake. 
But let’s say it’s broad daylight. You are meandering about in a forest you’ve been told never to enter. There are No Trespassing signs everywhere, but you think you can slip in and slip out and not get caught. Now, again let’s say you fall off a cliff and break your neck…that, my friend, was not a mistake. It was a conscious choice.” (Pg. 117-118)

Wrong doing by choice demands you "Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance." You do so by making right choices and by accepting personal responsibility for the wrong. 

Make a Difference

Can One Person Make a Difference? History and the Bible have proven just one person can make a difference. Consider what a difference one man, devoted totally to the Lord, did. Men like Noah, Moses, and Elijah made a great impact on the the world. Choose to make a difference and you will too!

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” -Helen Keller

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The Second Mile

Any person that has achieved success in any area of life will tell you that it is the second mile that makes the difference. For a race horse, it’s the last turn that will make a difference of winning and losing. For a retail business man, it’s the last quarter. For the Apostle John, it was the last days of his long life when he saw the Revelation of Jesus. It’s that second mile, that last stretch, those finial days, that make a difference. JB

Whatever you calling is; the difference is going to be made in the second effort, the second mile.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. - Isaiah 40:31

And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. - Galatians 6:9

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