I remember a statement I heard for the first time in the spring of 2010 which has echoed down into today, “You only have to be right once for your life to change.” How often have you heard someone in self-criticism speak about never doing anything right, or always messing up? Realize those are self-fulfilling statements and will continue to impact and influence your current and future reality.
Opportunities will come your way and your yes or no response will have an impact on what is yet to be. Regardless of what has happened in the past, you are still only one correct response from transformation in your life. This is true in every area of your life.
One very important area relates to whether you will say YES to the relationship with God through His Son, Jesus, as He extends grace to you. Another is when you are faced with the decision whether to say YES to an “all in” commitment to that relationship. In fact there is a sense in which we must decide each day how we will respond.
As I watched the movie, No Greater Love again the other day, one of the questions that came to my mind was how does a couple who had been best friends from the time they were eight years old get to the place where in their mid twenties they are so combative their marriage literally falls apart? It seemed to me it didn’t happen in a day, but as the result of what appeared to be little choices over many days. It was in the journey of grace that the Holy Spirit was working in their lives so they would come to a place where a YES to God would bring transformation and reconciliation in their lives.
I have to say there have been times in my life when I have said no to financial opportunities that would have made a huge transformational difference in our life and in our ability to have the resources to help others. You cannot go back and change those decisions, but you can be ready and willing to set aside a no and declare a yes when God provides you another chance. You might not know how you could ever find a way for the yes, but remember if God is the One opening that door, He will make a way, even if there seems to be no way.
Our family made a specific financial choice more than two years ago with an outcome five years down the line that would make a difference in our life. As we reach the half way point we are beginning to see the potential of what will be over the next couple of years. Right now, we live like the majority of people, day to day. In our case however, we live with an excitement that the present is under the Christmas tree and we are simply waiting for the day to arrive when we can open it.
You only have to be right once and your life can change!