From The Pastor’s Pen – By Brian Horrobin
Former Major League Baseball manager, Clint Hurdle, once said, “Doing it right is hard. Doing it over is harder.”
Nobody knows that better than Moses.
He was leading the children of Israel out of the wilderness and into the promised land but look what it says in Deuteronomy 1:2-3: “(It takes eleven days to go from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by the Mount Seir road.) In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.”
Yes, you heard that right, an 11-day trip took 40 years!
Israel had to learn all of their lessons the hard way!
I can remember studying zoology in my second year of biology at the University of Windsor.
I found the course very hard and came close to failing it, but the thought of having to repeat this course the following year was more then enough motivation for me to get the job done the first time around.
A lot of life’s tasks are hard: being a good spouse, being a patient parent, completing a course of study, dealing with family conflict, and the list goes on and on.
But then ask yourself, “Do I want to do this over again?”
Trust me, I am so relieved that I am done my undergraduate studies and don’t have to repeat them.
I am glad that I don’t have to take driver’s ed over again.
Or busboy training.
Or Lamaze classes!
We are now almost through the first month of 2022.
You don’t want to go back and redo it, do you?
If you did mess up a little this past month, then learn from it and don’t repeat your mistakes in February.
