Oh, Father in Heaven, forgive me for . . .

           Can you add to this list?  Do you remember seeing any examples of these attitudes?
A    absent-minded 
B    bitter        blaming
C    careless          childish        criticizing
D    demanding
E    envying
F    forgetting
G    gossiping
H    hateful
I     irritable        ignorantly        ignoring
J
K
L    lied
M   mistaken        made fun of
N    neglecting
O    offended
P
Q
R    reluctant           resentment         repeatedly        reckless
S    stupid            showing-off        shocking          selfish
T    telling a lie        threw it away
U    unforgiving      upset attitude
V
W    worried so much
X
Y    yelled at someone
Z

 by Elaine Hardt ©2020

Several Mistakes to Avoid

          We all know by now that it’s a good thing to avoid mistakes.  While we can learn from them it’s evident that life would be more efficient and less stressful if we’d learn by observing the mistakes of others, with the result of making better choices than they did.

Can most people be wrong?

Jesus said that most people make the wrong decision (Matthew 7:13). Busy-ness and stress seem to occupy most people’s time and energy; they coast along with three assumptions that lead to a major mistake. 

What are the three assumptions?

Overwhelmingly, people of all times and all places in life have accepted three common assumptions that the Bible tells us are not true.  

1. God is tolerant.
2. People are good at heart.
3. We can earn God’s approval in some way. 

These three ideas are universally popular, but lead to devastating consequences — a dreadful mistake.  

Why are these assumptions incorrect?

• If God is tolerant, then He is not holy.
• If people are good, then where does sin and selfishness and evil originate?  It’s not a mere lack of education or absence of spiritual awareness that keeps mankind from goodness.
• If there were some way for us to earn or deserve God’s approval, some way to remove all of our imperfections, then God would not have sent His Son Jesus, the Messiah, to suffer and die to redeem mankind.  God’s Word then would have listed all the merits and demerits, and we would be on our own to work hard to assure our place in Life after death.