n a wrestling or boxing challenge, it’s a common thing to be knocked down. The good news however is that a knocked down opponent sometimes end up winning the battle. If knocked down, get up. I once heard a preacher say, “If you’re not gaining ground, don’t lose ground.” How we respond to failure and mistake is one of the most important decisions we make every day. Failure doesn’t mean that nothing has been accomplished, it means you have discovered how not to do things. Throughout history, all great people at some points in their lives have failed. Anyone who is currently achieving something in life is simultaneously risking failure.
You’re never disappointed only if you don’t expect anything. If you do something and fail, you’re better off than someone who succeed in doing nothing. I would rather have a flawed diamond than a perfect brick. On four occasions in Revelation chapter 2 and other chapters of the book of Revelation, God said, “He that overcomes” will I give. Reward is only valuable at the end of a challenge. I’m so delighted God reserve the reward to the end because he won’t give up on you until you win. Your spiritual maturity comes-in in handling failures. The greater your degree of spiritual maturity, the greater the ability to get back up and move on. The less your spiritual maturity, the longer you hang on to past failures.
To this day, there are still some who are held back by mistakes made many years ago. God doesn’t see any of us as failures, He only sees us as learners. The key to being free from the stranglehold of past failures and mistake is “learn the lesson and forget the details.” Don’t you forget, ‘the devil is in the details’. Stop rolling over and over in your mind, the minutest details of your failures. God knows your weaknesses, limitations and failures before He called you. The call is higher than the fall.
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