How to overcome failure may sound like a daunting challenge to many but it shouldn’t, particularly to the People of God. For such, specifically those who know the Lord, overcoming failure shouldn’t be a difficult thing to achieve once we know and believe that there is no failure in God. And there is NO FAILURE in God.
It’s these very potent and electrically-charged words—there is no failure in God—that surged from my heart through my mouth and hopefully into the literal and figurative pericardium of the person who stood before me the other day and uttered “I feel like I failed.” Without thinking or hesitating I eagerly submitted these words to my targeted recipient like a precious gift and with as much assurance and persuasion as I could possibly summons from my entire jaded being. Then, with empathetic and passionate emphasis, I looked deep into the weary eyes of my wonderful Christian brother and firmly reiterated “there is no failure in God” while simultaneously beginning to think about how critical it is in this day and time for the People of God especially (regardless of the religious title that’s claimed) to quickly learn how to overcome failure or the feelings of failure and defeat.
Fact is, when I stated there is no failure in God I was actually having one of those classic moments I’ve had many times before in my life where I feel like I’m talking to myself first and foremost rather than to or with the person (or people) before me. I mean, at that very moment I desperately needed the encouragement I was sincerely attempting to lift my brother up with. I needed something that would equip me to better fight my current battle and all future battles; something that would help me learn how to overcome failure or feelings of failure.
So, as a result of a seemingly simple but, definitely, spiritually pregnant dialogue with a magnificent being named Ryan I now clearly see that when we really believe this great spiritual truism—there is no failure in God—we will have learned how to overcome all failure. Additionally, we will have realized that failure, like anything else and everyone else in life, including us, are but mere illusions, a transient existence. Indeed, we will know, in the words of B.C. Forbes, that “the man who has done his level best … is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.”
To be continued, God-willing.
Peace & Encouragement!
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