According to your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
—Psalm 51:1
Biblical portraits of its characters are pictured just as they were: no stumble, scar, or sin is airbrushed out. There they are, failing and falling in full view of all future generations.
But their get-up-and-get-back-on-track deeds are there too. Their flubs are mid-story, not end-story.
Have you ever taken a spiritual tumble? Of course you have. You wish you hadn’t done what you did, but you did it.
Now, how do you deal with it?
Deal with it like David did and like Peter did: face it, repent of it, confess it, and move on.
The Lord honors your faith, notwithstanding your failings. Always remember that.
God has never used anyone who hasn’t stumbled, for “we all stumble” (Jas 3:2).
Nor has God ever used anyone who, after stumbling, didn’t get up and give it another go.
God isn’t done with you yet.