“People who take huge risks aren’t afraid to fail.”

A thought by Bob Goff, (2012-05-01) from his book, Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World (p. 166). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.)

He then says, “In fact, they love to fail. It’s because failing means they found the edge.”

Do you see how not being afraid would give you an edge? For some failure is a major part of the process. They are not afraid to fail. As Bob said, “they love to fail.” The focus is not on them but it is on making a difference.

Now another edge for the Christian is the fact that God is good. That in our successes God is good but even in our failures He is especially good. Everything that happens to us must go through His love and His goodness so then why not try.

In my walk time from Starbucks I was thanking God for what He has done in Margaret and my life this past week and a half. It has been a fulfilment of doing what we needed to do after some failure that we had done. The failure had some great reward. This has been a very rewarding weekend. But it came about from a right response to a failure. God brought good out of a mistake.

I also was thanking Him for the good that He brought out of the failure. It didn’t defeat us it strengthened us. It was a long process but a rewarding one.

He also showed me a new risk He wants us to look at. And that we don’t need to be afraid.

So what are you afraid of?

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