Learn from Mistakes

God does not make mistakes, never did He nor will He ever. God is perfect and all He does is always perfect. Whatever God does for me is always the best. I may not understand it now, but time will testify that He always does the best for me.

Recently I made a couple of mistakes. It might sound silly and trivial. Nonetheless, they were still mistakes. I wonder to myself why I made such silly mistakes. I even thought of rectifying the mistakes I committed but ultimately I realized that they were not actually mistakes. It turned out that it was meant to be that way. 

We just had our Board of Directors meeting last Thursday. It was my official duty to preside over the meeting and make necessary official records. It was clearly told during the meeting that certain matters were a fellowship of the brothers not a part of the board meeting per se. But somehow, I recorded one of them into the minutes of the record. A brother pointed out this obvious mistake I committed and I apologized immediately.

Later, I still found that I made a typo in the minutes recording. Again a brother pointed it out. I thought I did it right but still, I made a mistake. And I again had to rectify the report. I thought to myself, what blunder and what oversight had I committed. Nonetheless, I learned that I needed the brothers who would help me find the mistakes I made and correct them. 

Another mistake I made was in filing my IT return. I thought I did everything right until I paid my tax and submitted the online form. First, my payment was not captured in the form I submitted. And later I discovered that I had filed the wrong form altogether. On checking with the official CA, I was told it could be rectified. And it was confirmed later that this was not a big issue and it will be settled. On the CA's advice, I did not try to revise it nor try to file with the new form. In this case, I thought I did not follow the inner leading as I initially intended to wait for a day. But as soon as I received my Form 16, I immediately did the filing, thinking that it was an easy job and it could just be done in a few minutes. I just proved myself wrong.

Nonetheless, I took this as a lesson to learn from and did not regret it. I am a child of God. I may make mistakes. But my Father God does not. Even when I committed a mistake, He turned it for my good to learn a lesson from.