How to Be a Safety Net // Are You a Blessing or a Burden, Part 2

<p>God made each one of us not only to be blessed by Him, but to be a blessing – the entry point of His blessing into the lives of people around us. And one of the ways we can do that, is by being a safety net for people, when they really need it.</p> <h4> </h4> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;"><strong>Compensating for Error</strong></span></h4> <p>People’s mistakes can be so annoying. Especially, let me say, when they make the same mistakes over and over and over again – which we all do. Now you might protest and say – I don’t make the same mistakes over and over and over again! And my response to you would be, “Sure you do. We all do.”</p> <p>Here’s why. There are something things that you’re naturally good at and some that you aren’t. There are some things that the next guy is naturally good and some that he isn’t. So – there you are, the two of you – good at different things, bad at different things.</p> <p>You see the mistakes he makes at the things you’re good at and you say to yourself, “How can that guy keep making the same mistake? It’s so obvious.” And right while you’re thinking that, he’s thinking exactly the same about you.</p> <p>My friend Keith is a great encourager. The sort of person you really enjoy spending an hour or two with over lunch; you come away feeling much better about yourself. He recently sent me a document that we’d both been working on. It was an 18-page contract that I had developed meticulously with some lawyers. He’d made a few changes, but did he turn on the word processor’s change control feature so I could see what changes he’d made? Nooooo!</p> <p>I was about to get annoyed – and then I remembered … hang on a minute this is Keith we’re talking about here. He’s a great encourager, but when it comes to technology and admin and all that stuff, he’s a dead loss. It’s the way that he is. And he’s never going to change. I can’t do what he does, he can’t do what I do – and that’s the way it was always meant to be. And so I am at that point confronted with exactly the same question