Plan of Salvation - Allowing us to make mistakes

I learned something new this week. I have been involved in several important mistakes our startup has made over the last two weeks. While these mistakes are painful, they also teach us the most about what needs to change in the business and what we should do to improve. The value of mistakes is very high. When thinking about this, I started comparing it to life. God's plan was to send us to earth so that we could learn from our own experience the results of doing good and the results of doing bad. He wanted us to leave his presence and come to a place where we could prove ourselves and also learn from the mistakes we would inevitably make. In fact, he knew that there would be enticing things about doing both good and evil (2 Nephi 2)

16 Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should ^aact for himself. Wherefore, man could not ^bact for himself save it should be that he was ^centiced by the one or the other.

This realization about the value of mistakes in business and life gives me a different view about how God views us when we want to come closer to him. He knew that we would all make mistakes. He simply wants us to come back to him. Some make bigger or smaller mistakes, but that's not critical. What's critical is that we learn from our experiences.

Mistakes were so inevitable that the key component of the The Plan of Salvation was for Jesus Christ to come to the earth to pay the price for mistakes and sins and the failings of the world. That is what makes God's plan the perfect plan. He not only knew we would make mistakes, but he also made sure that the consequences of those would be paid for by someone else. I know this is indeed true and that everything that is wrong is this world will eventually be made right through Jesus Christ.

I appreciate the chances to make mistakes.

Have a good day.