BBD 03.07.22 Mistakes (New)
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Since June 8th 1998, this is
the 1849th
The Burning Bush Devotional
08 March 2022
Mistakes
Who can understand his errors?
Cleanse me from secret faults.
Keep back Your servant also
from presumptuous sins;
Let them not have dominion over me.
Then I shall be blameless,
And I shall be innocent of great transgression.
Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
Be acceptable in Your sight,
O Lord, my strength and
my Redeemer. – Psalm 19:12-14 NKJV.
American Airlines Flight 4817 was forced to
make an emergency landing in New York City’s LaGuardia airport at about 3pm on
a Saturday afternoon. An alert woman passenger noticed a fellow passenger scrolling
through photos and videos of some type of a device. He then pulled out an odd-looking
device and appeared to be setting a timer. The alert passenger alerted a flight
attendant to the possibility of a bomb being onboard and the pilot decided to
make the emergency landing.
The bomber was escorted off the plane, placed
face down on the tarmac, searched, and then interrogated for several hours until
the truth was revealed. The truth was the man was an antique camera enthusiast!
On the plane he had been looking at videos and photos of antique cameras and
when his luggage was searched, they found… antique cameras! I don’t know what
happened at that point. Did they offer the man an apology? Did the airline
reimburse him somehow? What happened with the woman who reported the man to the
flight attendant? (PetaPixel 10.11.21; MSM 10.11.21; Inside Edition 10.11.21)
We all make sinful mistakes (Romans 3:23), and we also make unintentional mistakes
like the woman who reported the antique camera enthusiast as being a bomb
maker. Then there are mistakes and sins that we are unaware that we are
committing. I certainly have made my share of mistakes and likely many that I
am not even aware that I have committed. While I was a parole officer, I once raided
a client’s home and seized a plant that I believed was a marijuana plant. It
certainly looked like a marijuana plant, but it wasn’t. Embarrassing! And I did
apologize.
Another mistake that I remember well during
that time in my life was when visiting a young woman with a baby that had just
been placed on my caseload. It appeared that the baby had been abused with
bruises all over its body. I contacted the Department of Human Services and
took a social worker experienced with these situations back to the woman’s
home. We thought the baby would have to be taken into DHS custody. However, I
was mistaken as what appeared to be bruises was an unfortunate congenital
condition. Embarrassing! And I did apologize.
Governments can also make mistakes. It looks
like a horrific mistake that Putin has made invading a peaceful country. It looks
like the United States and European countries have made a mistake depending
upon Russia for oil and natural gas.
The United States has enough oil and natural
gas for more than a hundred years. However, it looks like the government of the
United States has made a mistake in imposing so many regulations that this
country is no longer energy independent and unable to export natural gas to
Europe which now needs it to replace Russian gas.
Almost unbelievable is the mistake the United
States is making in continuing to buy Russian oil which results in funding the
Russian attack on Ukraine. Will these governments admit their mistakes? Possibly,
but it is taking far too much time for them to decide to do that and change course
while innocent civilians are being murdered by the Russians. But, I digress.
King David says, “Who can understand his errors? Cleanse me from
secret faults.” David is talking about those errors,
mistakes, sins that we commit unknowingly. David wants to stand before his God
without fault because he is the man after God’s own heart. David knows that God
knows everything and sees everything in his life and our lives.
I like the way that the Message puts this verse: “There’s more: God’s Word warns
us of danger and directs us to hidden treasure. Otherwise how will we find our
way? Or know when we play the fool? Clean the slate, God, so we can start the
day fresh! Keep me from stupid sins, from thinking I can take over your work;
Then I can start this day sun-washed, scrubbed clean of the grime of sin. These
are the words in my mouth; these are what I chew on and pray. Accept them when
I place them on the morning altar, O God, my Altar-Rock, God,
Priest-of-My-Altar.”
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Ukrainians as they bravely face the Russian onslaught.
Please pray for all of the
Ukrainian refugees and those trying to care for them.
Please pray that the hearts
of the American leaders will change and do what is necessary to stop Putin. It
can be done without troops on the ground by simply allowing oil and gas
producers to again give us energy independence stopping our need to buy Russian
oil.
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will grow rapidly in the faith and that she will be protected from evil. Please
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morning in our church.)
Please pray for the coronavirus
COVID19 pandemic to come to an end. Pray for treatments and a cure for the
virus to be rapidly found and deployed. Pray for all those afflicted to be
healed and for our leaders to have supernatural wisdom and ability to lead us
through this pandemic.
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rioting, looting, wanton destruction, and the racial hatred in the USA and that
it will be replaced with peace and love. May God help the USA! Many prayer
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Oklahoma. Please pray for me and for this church.).
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