Wrongs Can Be Wins: How Taking the "L" Early Can Be Beneficial

Being wrong is a blessing- seriously. It reminds you that the world is not centered around you and it opens you up to the built-in correction we benefit from in community. I am still warming up to this concept, but I definitely maybe think there is some unscraped truth here for us to shakedown.

Being wrong makes you self-aware, albeit painfully. But, once you get over the initial shock and hump, you are so much better on the other side. When is the last time you have been wrong? Did you realize it? How? Did you admit it or deny? Was there a since sense of surrender, change, or just a bypass? Think about it.

One of the interesting aspects of the Old Testament, you sometimes saw the err(or) and air of ways instantly. Ground swallowing up people. Instant plague. War. Embarrassment. I am so glad in God's kindness, many of us do not immediately experience these outcomes as a result of being "wrong." I wonder sometimes if some of these more extreme, jolting outcomes could be avoided if we had the humility to be leveled incrementally more often. For example, could we take smaller, gradual on-the-road losses versus a more asymptotic ground-like leveling. In the former instance, it might be a little easier in effort to rebound.

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