Did you hear about UC-San Diego telling 29k students they were accepted to the university?

An error was made, and those students were told in error.

Maybe San Diego should change its nickname, America’s Finest City.

I guess they weren’t America’s finest students.

Big mistake.

I wondered what kind of mistake I could make on that level. Good to bad decision. Impacting thousands. A simple mistake.

Then I remembered that I was 19 when I decided to make Jesus not just savior but my Lord.

Big mistake.

It’s interesting when I ask older fellow travelers in this journey with Christ, if they have any regrets, one answer tends to quickly be given.

Come to Christ sooner.

My 19 years of doing it on my own, was a bad decision become good. It impacts (potentially) thousands. It was a simple mistake.

That’s what I think about when I think of yesterday. I was lost. I don’t have anything figured out now, but Jesus gives me life because of the empty tomb. He offers me life every day, as the only true Life-Giver.

As Ephesians 2 says better than I could, “remember that at that time (before Christ) you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.”

Big mistake.

A life without Easter is without hope and without God.

That’s hell defined in my book.

We need to come to Christ and the cross, and I believe more importantly, the empty tomb daily and live there. Not advance to what we believe is Christianity 401.

That is 101 life lessons, ones not to advance beyond.

Author Jerry Bridges says too often we come to Christ and after the honeymoon stage, we got back to trying to do it on our own, and not let Jesus live through us, focused on the cross and empty tomb.

Big mistake.

Let’s avoid that huge blunder today and in the weeks to come.