The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.  Acts 17:30-31

We all make mistakes.  We all have made some bad choices.  Our biggest problems come when we begin to make the same bad choices over and over again.

Seth Godin relates our bad choices to getting on the wrong bus.  “Your first mistake was getting on the A53 bus, the one that goes crosstown instead of to where you’re going. Mistakes like this happen all the time. The big mistake, though, the one that will cost you, is staying on that bus. I know it wasn’t easy to get on the bus. I know you got a seat. I know it’s getting dark outside. But you’re on the wrong bus, and staying on the wrong bus won’t make it the right bus. If you really want to get where you set out to go, you’re going to have to get off the wrong bus.”

The Apostle Paul said, “forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” in Philippians 3:13-14.  If we get on the wrong bus, let’s make the next, right choice, and get off at the next stop.  The family we have in the church is here to support us through our struggles and through the trials of life.  Lean on them!