IT’S OK TO SAY I WAS WRONG
There is courage in admitting you were mistaken. It does not weaken a person. It strengthens them. History has always turned not on those who never erred, but on those who were humble enough to stop, look again, and change course when the road proved false.
Many who voted for him did so with sincere hopes. Some longed for stability. Some wanted their voices heard. Some believed promises of protection, prosperity, or moral clarity. None of that makes you foolish or wicked. It makes you human. Every generation has been moved by strong words and confident faces, and every generation has learned that charisma is not the same thing as character.
The Bible never mocks repentance. It honors it. When King David was confronted with his sin, he did not defend himself or blame others. He said plainly, “I have sinned against the Lord” (2 Samuel 12:13). That sentence did not end his story—it began his healing. Scripture teaches that God is near to the brokenhearted, not to the self-justifying (Psalm 34:18). Pride hardens. Humility opens the door to mercy.
The prophets often spoke to people who had trusted the wrong leaders. Israel followed kings who promised strength while quietly feeding their own appetites. The people paid the price, yet God never said, “You are beyond hope.” He said, “Return to Me, and I will heal what has been broken” (Jeremiah 3:22). God’s concern was never about saving face. It was about saving hearts.
Jesus warned about leaders who sound bold but bear bad fruit. He said you can recognize a tree by what hangs from its branches (Matthew 7:16-20). Good fruit nourishes. Rotten fruit poisons. When cruelty is excused, when truth is bent, when neighbors are treated as enemies, the fruit tells the story no matter how loud the speeches are.
To say, “I was wrong,” is not betrayal. It is clarity. It is stepping out of the fog and into the light. It is refusing to double down just to avoid embarrassment. The Gospel never asks us to defend our past errors. It invites us to lay them down. Repentance is not humiliation. It is liberation.
The apostle Paul once believed he was serving God while doing terrible harm. When the light finally broke through, he did not cling to his old certainty. He counted it loss so that he might gain Christ (Philippians 3:7-8). God did not discard him for being wrong. God remade him because he was honest.
If you are seeing now what you could not see before, do not be ashamed. You are not alone, and you are not late. The kingdom of God is filled with people who had to unlearn before they could truly learn. What matters is not who you defended yesterday, but what kind of neighbor you choose to be today.
Truth is not afraid of humility. Christ is not threatened by repentance. And grace does not ask you to pretend. It simply asks you to come home.
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Lord Jesus, give us hearts soft enough to admit when we have been wrong and strong enough to walk in truth when it costs us pride. Free us from fear, lead us by Your light, and shape us into people marked by humility, compassion, and courage. Amen.
BDD
