One great thought was to embrace a culture of failure. If we’re going to achieve anything great then failure along the way is inevitable. We need to give people room to fail, as in many cases failure is the first step towards success.
John Maxwell puts it like this in his book Failing Forward:
“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.”
The most important thing is really not whether we fail or not. It’s how we respond when we do fail.
Our tendency is often to let our failures define us. Our enemy would love nothing better to keep us in that moment and mindset for the rest of our lives. However, failure doesn’t have to be fatal. We serve a God who is never taken by surprise, is always faithful and never fails.
The question is simply this: Will we learn from failure, use it as an opportunity to reinforce our dependency on God, and find ways to grow because of it?
The Bible puts it like this:
“for though the righteous fall seven times, they rise again….” – Prov 24:16
Feeling a failure? It’s time to rise again.
