Failure is overrated, it is curable!
Key scriptures
Key thought
Failure is overrated when we allow God to come handle it.
There is no situation in the scriptures when God appeared on the scene and it ended in disaster - unless if God was judging people. Every funeral Jesus went ended in a resurrection, every sick person he met got healed.
Disclaimer
Asserting that failure is overrated, is not an attempt to lessen the power and effect of sin and failure but to point out that the GRACE of GOD is sufficient to cure sin and failure. In presence of God, failure is overrated!!
Learning from the story of Moses, why and how is failure underrated?
God reaches out to us even in our failures
- The tendency for human beings is to resign to fate when they fail.
- Jesus came because humanity failed and he came to correct that by reconciling us back to God.
- God uses our failures to open doors to encounters with him.
- Moses first saw a burning bush and went to observe closer and that’s when God spoke to him. God does not compromise on his qualities and standards and yet He still is able to reach out to us in spite of our short falls.
- We must remain watchful and sensitive to God’s move even when we are broken and have suffered failure. When He speaks we must pay attention.
- Out of our failures God can reveal his purposes for us
- A murderer is sent to deliver a failed nation. Our failures cannot stop God from using us, He takes broken and failed vessels and cleans, trains and sharpens them to become agents of transformation.
- Where Moses failed is where his assignment was, he had a hint of what was in God's heart but he was using the wrong methods to cure it.
- The source of his failure was connected to his life assignment. May God’s glory be made manifest through our broken and failing positions.
- Behind our challenges lie opportunities to take us to the next level. Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach, at the core of our challenges is a sin problem.
- Out of our failures we come to know God better
- God reveals himself in new dimensions even in our failures. Through this encounter God reveals his holiness to Moses. He tells Moses ‘do not come closer but take off your sandals for you are standing on holy ground’
- God reveals himself as a caring and answering God. ‘I have seen and heard the cries of my children, the children of Israel continued to cry for God's help whilst in slavery’. He is a covenant keeping God.
- We must see that God is taking Moses step by step, at first Moses says who am I to this task and God says, ‘I will be with you’ Immanuel God with us.
- When He asks God what if they ask me what is his name, God told him to go them that ‘I am that I am’ has sent me. …v15This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.
- Relationship breakdowns are overrated when we bring this ‘I am that I am’.
- God turns our failures into victory by empowering us
- God gives us the ability to float in the sea of failure. He sends us on tasks that He himself will take charge.
- Exodus 3:20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go.
- God positions us for victory and not failure. We struggle and toil in defeat because when not willing to let go and fully yield to God.
- Hesitancy should be conquered by relying on the giver of the assignment! Inadequacy is not a valid excuse; God empowers for whatever assignment he sends us to do.
- The devil though by crucifying Jesus, he would fail on his mission. The rulers of this age had they understood that behind this seemingly failed situation in the cross was victory they would not have preceded with their plan.
Food for thought
What comes to your mind when we see fail in our lives, assess the failures and brokenness in our nation, do you think our view point corresponds with God's viewpoint?
Conclusion
We must never park at failure. We must see failure from the view point of God. We must invite God into every situation that we have failed.