Day 5
What do you do with your mistakes?
We have all made mistakes, some more than others. I have learned that what is really important is not so much the fact of making mistakes, but the decisions we make after we have made them.
What lesson can we draw from it?
What do we have to do?
Who do we have to ask for forgiveness?
What changes should we make?
This makes me think of Zacchaeus. This man was a tax collector in the period of the Roman occupation of Israel. In addition to working for the "enemy," Zacchaeus made his fellow citizens pay more taxes than those owed. It goes without saying that Zacchaeus was not appreciated at all by the Jews.
One day, Jesus goes through the city of Jericho and chooses this man's house to stay there. You can read the story of their encounter in Luke 19: 2-9.
Zacchaeus meets Jesus and quickly becomes aware of the need for an immediate change in his life. He promises to give half of his assets to the poor and to reimburse up to four times as much to those he overpaid! Jesus said to him: “Today salvation has come to this house; because he also is a son of Abraham ”(Luke 19: 9).
It is not how many mistakes you make or what you have done in the past that counts. What really counts is the measure of Jesus' love in you, and Jesus hasn't changed.
Dear brothers, if you turn to Him with the desire to change your life and all your wrong attitudes, He will pick you up with open arms. It will free you from guilt and shame, and you will become a new person, a source of blessing for others.
Luke 19: 2-9
2 And it came to pass that a man named Zacchaeus, who was chief of the publicans, and rich,
3 he tried to see who Jesus was; but he could not because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.
4 And running ahead, he climbed a sycamore tree to see him; because it had to go through there.
5 When Jesus arrived at that place, looking up, he saw him and said to him: Zacchaeus, hurry up, come down, because today I must stay in your house.
6 So he hurried down and received him joyfully.
7 When they saw this, they all murmured, saying that he had entered to pose with a sinful man.
8 Then Zacchaeus, standing up, said to the Lord: Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have disappointed someone in something, I return it quadrupled.
9 Jesus said to him: Today salvation has come to this house; because he also is a son of Abraham.
