Read proverbs 24:16  How do you feel when you mess up?  What do you say when you have done something wrong?  Do you try to cover up your mistake?  Or do you try to blame someone else for your mistake?  When we make a mistake, we should admit that we have made the mistake.  We should take responsibility and apologize for it.  We should ask forgiveness from the one that we have offended.  Instead of making excuses, we should own up to our failures like a grown-up.  We should not be like the wicked person in our verse who falls into mischief.  We should be like the just man in our verse.  When the just man fell down, what does our verse say that he did?  And when the just man fell down again, what does our verse say that he did?  Our verse says that the just man fell down how many times?  But our verse says that the just man got right up again and again.  Every time he messed up, he apologized and got right up again.  Don’t give in to mischief like the wicked man.  Ask forgiveness over and over if you have to.  Be like the just man.  God is on the side of the just man.  Are you on God’s side?