“It seems failure is no match for the person who believes in the future.”

A thought by Erwin Raphael McManus, (2006-11-14) from his book, Soul Cravings: An Exploration of the Human Spirit (p. 76). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition.

Does that make sense to you? It does to me.

I am reminded in myself some times of what I have failed to accomplish or where I blew it. The truth is there is pain there. I also know that if I stay there my potential to live life at its fullness is over.

I was reading today the last few chapters of Matthew in the New Testament of the Bible of Jesus death on a cross. Can you imagine how those who had followed Him were feeling? I mean everything they believed in was hanging on that Cross as a failure. What fools were we to believe that He was more than a man. But that was Friday and so many of us live in the Friday’s of our lives. We are fired, our marriage falls apart, we gave in again to that temptation, we followed the wrong person, we failed. It is horrible to live in the Friday existence of failure.

But Sunday was just two days away and their life was just beginning. Understand that in the life of adventure there are risks. And in every risk there is danger. But there is also danger in living in the despair of failure. Jesus didn’t fail. Friday had the picture of failure but it was a part of His plan of salvation. And that is true of each failure. There is something to be learned from it, there is a challenge to not do it again and there is the success of surviving through it. Failure is no match for faith in your future.

I start each day with the belief that God is there, that God is good and that He has a plan for me in that day. I live each day with the excitement of living that day with God. Life will not defeat me if I keep my eyes on Him, His plan, His power and His goodness. My future even at 65+ is bright and exciting. He takes failures and makes adventures out of them.

So where is your focus?

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