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"The LORD can give you much more than that." 2 Chronicles 25:9 NIV
Have you ever made a poor decision and then found your pride made it difficult to back out?
Maybe you purchased a car you couldn’t afford or approved a bad business decision. Instead of losing your shirt on the car or losing face over your decision, did you try to make it work?
Amaziah spent a lot of money on a poor decision. When a messenger from God confronted him, he replied, “But what about the hundred talents I paid?” (2 Chronicles 25:9 NIV). Can you hear his thoughts? Surely God doesn’t want me to waste the money I already spent or appear unqualified in front of my people? The messenger’s response refocused Amaziah’s pride: “The Lord can give you much more.”
In other words, there’s no reason to worry about how a mistake will be perceived if you believe in God. After all, He honors those who own their mistakes and who do the right thing whatever the personal cost.
The book of Acts records how, as Paul owned his mistakes, rulers respected him. Prior to traveling as a prisoner to Rome, his captor, “in kindness to Paul, allowed him to go to his friends” (Acts 27:3 NIV). That’s not how captors treated prisoners in the ancient world, but it is how they treated the apostle who trusted the God who gives “more.”
Prayer: Lord, help me be more comfortable with owning my mistakes so that I can watch You be You.
Have you ever made a poor decision and then found your pride made it difficult to back out?
Maybe you purchased a car you couldn’t afford or approved a bad business decision. Instead of losing your shirt on the car or losing face over your decision, did you try to make it work?
Amaziah spent a lot of money on a poor decision. When a messenger from God confronted him, he replied, “But what about the hundred talents I paid?” (2 Chronicles 25:9 NIV). Can you hear his thoughts? Surely God doesn’t want me to waste the money I already spent or appear unqualified in front of my people? The messenger’s response refocused Amaziah’s pride: “The Lord can give you much more.”
In other words, there’s no reason to worry about how a mistake will be perceived if you believe in God. After all, He honors those who own their mistakes and who do the right thing whatever the personal cost.
The book of Acts records how, as Paul owned his mistakes, rulers respected him. Prior to traveling as a prisoner to Rome, his captor, “in kindness to Paul, allowed him to go to his friends” (Acts 27:3 NIV). That’s not how captors treated prisoners in the ancient world, but it is how they treated the apostle who trusted the God who gives “more.”
Prayer: Lord, help me be more comfortable with owning my mistakes so that I can watch You be You.
