Ever been there? Are you there now? That feeling of failure –
you just can’t seem to get more than 0.5 out of every 10 things right.
Things are moving too fast for you – even if they aren’t
moving fast at all…you just can’t seem to find your footing.
I think in these times, there are some key Biblical principles
that we need to remember. (All quotes taken from NASB)
1)
We don’t set the standard for failure; God does –
and we are not alone.
a. Romans
3:23 “for all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God”
2)
God chose to love us in the middle of all our
failures – when we had no hope of changing.
a. Romans
5:8 “But God demonstrates His
own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
3)
God’s love cannot be changed!
a. John
10:28-30 “and I give eternal life to them, and they will never perish; and no
one will snatch them out of My hand. My Father, who has given them to
Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the
Father’s hand. I and the Father are one.”
b. Hebrews
13:8 “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
4)
We have God’s permission to move forward.
a. Philippians
3:13-15 “Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do:
forgetting what lies behind
and reaching forward to what lies ahead,
I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward
call of God in Christ Jesus. Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have
this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will
reveal that also to you;”
b. Philippians
2:12-13 “So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my
presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation
with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you,
both to will and to work for His good pleasure.”
Thanks – prayerfully this will be an encouragement to some
of you even today,
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