“The Lord
upholds all who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed
down.”
Psalm 145:14
How have your past failures helped to shape who you
are today?
Some might consider that an odd question.
We like to think that only our successes are what have
shaped who we are.
But there is great value in our failures too.
We hurt ourselves when we do not take the education
that failures offer us.
If success is the ‘pat on the back’ and failures the ‘spanking’
then both are necessary in the process of growth.
We were encouraged this past Sunday to consider three
opportunities that failure can bring us.
They are:
-
Failure adds to
our knowledge and understanding
-
Failure builds
our character
-
Failure
emphasizes our need for God
Of course
none of these will happen if we do not take the lessons that failure offers.
You have
undoubtedly heard the expression “Don’t waste your trials.”
Well I
would challenge you to simply replace that word ‘trials’ with ‘failures’
in that quote.
The Holy
Spirit not only stands beside us to lift us up after we fall but to help us
take away from those failures valuable lessons.
Don’t
allow your failures to be wasted by not learning the lessons they teach!
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