HEY MIKE! While I attempt to do what’s right and to obey God, I often get caught up in bad choices. Before I know it, I’m doing dumb things: lying, cheating, fighting. What can I do to change?
—T.C., Virginia Beach, Va.
Even Christians with the best intentions can get off course from time to time. Check out what Christian scholar C.S. Lewis has to say about our struggle to follow God:
“A live body is not one that never gets hurt, but one that can to some extent repair itself. In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble—because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death that Christ Himself carried out.”
Making wise choices involves more than head knowledge. Pursuing authentic faith means applying God’s truth to everyday situations. And the wisest action a Christian can take is to admit a wrong he or she has committed, turn to Christ (confession), then start fresh again—in the right direction (repentance). 
