Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Tues Devo: Feeling like you're failing

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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