Why God Allows Us to Learn from Our Mistakes
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
4.9 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
God is quick to forgive, and he’s given us the gift of confession so we can return to a relationship with him after sin. But this love he has for us is so great that he never wants us to be caught by sin again, which is why he allows our sins to have consequences. Just like your parents would teach you why something is wrong, God helps us build knowledge of sin and its consequences by letting us experience them. Without learning from our mistakes, we would just keep falling into the same sins, separating us from a relationship with God.
Today, Fr. Mike explains why God lets us learn from our mistakes, and how it shows the depth of his mercy.
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| 0:00.0 | God notices, God cares, and your choices matter. |
| 0:12.5 | How my name's Father Mike Schmitts and this is a sense of reason. So, |
| 0:15.2 | a year ago I heard of a friend of my brother-in-laws. At one point his parents had a unique parenting |
| 0:21.6 | style where they wanted to teach their son responsibility. Physical responsibility, so |
| 0:25.2 | which is responsibility with money. So, what they did is they said, okay, what would it cost us |
| 0:31.0 | as parents to raise you for an entire year, excluding rent or rent or rent or normal meals. |
| 0:39.4 | But, you know, those things that like if you asked for a skateboard, you asked for, you know, |
| 0:43.3 | we'd have to buy you new clothes or whatever it takes to raise a kid, right? They said instead of |
| 0:49.2 | just buying those things piecemeal for him, they said, we're going to give you, we're going to add |
| 0:53.5 | it all up and give you that money that would have we were spent on you in a lump sum, it's yours. |
| 0:59.1 | Now, keep this in mind that it's yours to use to buy clothes and to if you want a skateboard |
| 1:05.1 | or whatever the thing is, right? Then that this is for you, but this is it. This is the whole |
| 1:10.2 | for this whole entire year. So, this young man, I mean, he was in early adolescence, they were teaching |
| 1:15.5 | him this. And, no, keep this in mind. I get that there's some parents maybe out there saying, |
| 1:20.8 | that's the worst idea I've ever heard of my entire life. They should be arrested. Those parents |
| 1:24.5 | locked up because what happened was this young man did what you would think any young man would do. |
| 1:29.1 | I mean, his parents warned him like, this is it. This is the thing. But he went out and spent all |
| 1:33.8 | of his money in a relatively short amount of time on fun stuff, right? Non-none responsible things. |
| 1:39.6 | Then when it came to winter, he had a winter coat from the previous year as an early adolescent male. |
| 1:45.3 | He did not fit in that winter coat very well. So, he had, but he had to wear that the entire year. |
| 1:49.1 | His jeans had holes in them, but he didn't have any money for new jeans. And he kept going back to |
| 1:53.2 | his parents saying, can I have a new winter coat, a new jacket, new, or new jeans, new shoes? |
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