Failure does not define who you are. What you do when you fail, does.
At some point, you will fail everyone.
3 main responses to failure:
- Avoiding responsibility
- Assigning yourself to the condemnation “corner”
- Falling on your knees in dependence on Christ
Remember 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 – “And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.”
You put your whole hope and trust in the Lord and not in your own obedience or strength or ability to do things “perfectly” according to X standard. These things will fail you.
Psalm 37:23-24 – “The steps of a man are established by the LORD, and He delights in his way. When he falls, he will not be hurled headlong, because the LORD is the One who holds his hand.”
