Yes, I’m going to make mistakes. Anybody who’s really DOING anything, is going to make mistakes. It’s OK. But it’s NOT OK to sin. Jesus didn’t die for our “mistakes”. He died for our SINS. So we never want to take our sins, and put them under the category of “mistakes”. We MUST differentiate between the two. If we’re not sure, it would be better to call a mistake a sin, and confess it, and put it under the blood; than shrug off sin as an innocent mistake, leaving unconfessed sin.
One little helpful guide the Lord spoke to me just this morning is, “Mistakes can be committed for lack of knowledge. Sin is committed in SPITE of knowledge.” James 4:17 says, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
I don’t know it all, but I’m determined to DO SOMETHING; and though I do it to the very best I know how, I will undoubtedly make mistakes. A perfectionist might choose to do nothing, out of fear that they would do something wrong, or imperfectly, or not as well as someone else. THAT is an even bigger mistake. That could be sin.
Such a person could be one of those Jesus calls a “wicked and slothful servant” who would be “cast into outer darkness”, because he buried his Lord’s investment money. (See Matthew 25:14-30, and Luke 19:12-26) Note in both texts, that his Lord said, “thou knewest”… you knew.
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