Well, when you think about it, nobody plans to mess up their lives.

Right? Nobody plans to mess up their lives. Nobody says it's like my five-year goal

to really screw things up big time. But people mess up their lives all the time.

And when they do mess up their lives, a lot of times other people look on

and will summarize what could be months or even years or decades of unwise decisions.

They'll often look on and summarize a whole season of somebody's life in one sentence.

Nobody plans to mess up their life, but people do. And when they do, and it takes a long time to do it,

it's often summarized in one sentence. They might say, well,

his sex addiction was out of control and his wife left him. One sentence.

Or, man, she started using again and she lost her job and eventually lost her marriage.

Or he always battled with his weight and he ended up dying in his mid-50s of a heart attack.

Nobody plans to mess up their life, but they do it all the time.

And then often what takes years or even decades, people summarize it with one sentence

as if they just had one bad day. But when you think about it, it's very rare that people end up at a bad place all at once.

How do people mess up their lives? They do it one bad decision.

They do it one wrong step and they do it one harmful habit at a time.

One unwise decision, one wrong step, one bad habit at a time.

And I'm going to show you today in scripture and example.

You can shout out the character in the Bible if you figure it out.

You can type it online if you figure it out as well.

This guy's from the Old Testament. I'll give you some clues.

He was a guy with amazing hair, amazing strength, amazing potential.

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