Failing Successfully!
July 8, 2010 by wade
Filed under Wade's Weekly Word
All roads to achieving success and fulfilling our God designed destiny lead through the land of failure.
NBA coach Rick Pittino said, “Failure is good! It’s fertilizer. Everything I’ve learned about coaching I’ve learned from mistakes.”
One of life’s challenges is learning how to keep failure from attacking our hearts, and how to keep success from going to our heads!
Failing is inevitable and is what you do and not who you are unless you choose to embrace a wrong response. In every failure we can try to cover up the mess up, blow up in anger and blame others, speed up by trying to outrun and outwork your past failures, or just give up in despair. But if we wake up and confess up then we can go up and get back on the pathway to success. Proverbs 28:13, “He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.”
We will use the acronym F.A.I.L.U.R.E. to detail how we can fail successfully so that we are made better and not bitter by them!
F – Face it Honestly
A — Abandon it Decisively
I — Interpret it Scripturally
L — Learn from it Personally
U — Take the U out of it (i.e. –Failure) Consistently
R — Rethink it Correctly – Do not just try again — think clearly and correctly before you try again!
E — Expect it Regularly — Train for Potential Future Failures
Airplane pilots train for every possible problem and failure. The average pilot can fly flawlessly when there are not any problems or adverse weather conditions. However, when the inevitable major mechanical failure or weather problem occurs, the pilots who have trained over and over for such events will, if humanly possible, save the aircraft and the lives on board. Unlike flying an airplane, all of our lives are filled with trials and errors — normally more errors than trials! If we can learn how to handle failures, we will be able to maintain our attitude and altitude and reach our destination safely and successfully!
There’s a saying in Texas, “It doesn’t matter how much milk you spill as long as you don’t lose your cow!”
So stop crying over spilled milk and begin to learn how to get your cow back on the track of successful output again!
It seems that when we are dealt a what we feel to be a “crushing blow” to ourselves that we forget that we are in Gods hands and that he has everything under control. When we are faced with adversity we must remember that every milestone that we will have before us.. was know by God bfore we were even born. Thank you Lord for our FAILURES and allow us to use these circumstances to glorify YOU!
I have decided not to be a prisoner of memory nor to be bound in self-accusing systems as if I am “a failure”. I AM NOT. I have also learnt that all we are and do is shaped by our consideration of lessons from past failure either by our selves or by others. If we can only learn to live carefully by the Word and grace of God! ALUTA CONTINUA brethren.