Your Fault Vault

James Allen posits that “[Human beings] are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” Proverbs 28:13 councils that if you hide your shortcomings, you’ll not prosper. I think there is a direct link between the two ideas: When you lock your faults in a vault, you never learn to vault your faults.

Here is the plain truth: when kept in the dark, weaknesses grow stronger creating a slow fade. A slow fade that eventually drags you backward or at the very least keeps you in place. Addressing weak areas in your character is an important step in moving forward. Fact is, it is the only step you can take to get off the treadmill. 

Today, reach into your fault vault and pull one out. Write it down on a piece of paper and then read it out loud to yourself. How does that make you feel? Don’t respond by rushing to put it back into the vault. Rather, leave it out and let yourself ruminate on it for a couple of days. Analyze your perspective over it. Can you see it simply as “what is” and not “what is you?” 

Your own judgment is the first thing you need to unlearn or rewrite. Take a look at what you wrote down and say to yourself out loud “This [fault] is not me.” Then start cataloging what life will look like once you address it. Start to consider what you need to do to address the fault completely, and when you’re ready, share it with trusted people in your life. 

What grows in the dark is killed by the light. To experience moving forward, start emptying your fault vault.