Psalm 51 & Matthew 5:23-24

I was just walking down the street and I tripped. I landed flat on my face. I looked back and saw the culprit... a small raised lip of concrete.

I quickly looked around to see if anyone had seen me stumble, then I started my list:
people to blame other than myself,
reasons why it couldn't possibly have been my fault,
who I was going to take it out on,
and most importantly why life was so unfair.

I wasted a ton of emotional energy trying to resolve my stumble when I could have done something wiser: get back up, acknowledge that I wasn't watching where I was going, and move on.

The Bible says that we are all going to stumble. The question is, what are we going to do after the inevitable happens?

~Pastor Grant