I May Not Like It, But I Need It // The Upside of Down
Polls have shown time and time again that the fear of failure is one of the most common and crippling threats we face. And we do face it...all of us. We’ve all encountered failure before, whether personally or professionally. Ways that we’ve not quite lived up to our expectations. Ways that we we’ve let ourselves down...or let God down. Failure is an awful feeling—but it doesn’t have to be. God wants us to see the truth, that there is an upside to every down. For every cross, there’s an empty grave! We don’t have to fear failure. We can embrace it. So the question is: “Will we choose to see that truth and allow it to reinvent the way we see failure?”
What if the difficulties that you face—the letdowns, the missed opportunities, the failures—are actually a critical piece of the story God is telling in your life? What if the thing that you hate is an essential building block of your faith? There are certain things we can only learn through pain, and there are certain things we can only learn about God through failure. And in the midst of those moments, we can find the miracle that God can bring out of every single failure.
