Failure Can Be Your Best Friend
Hey Friends,
Most of us hate failure with a passion and yet if you look back in your life, I’ll bet it has helped you many times. We learn so much from failure. I could list several things failure can and does show us, but better yet, let me tell you a story of failure with one of my great friends.
My friend will remain nameless since I did not ask his permission to share his story. He has been my friend for many years. Early in his young adult life he was fired from a job selling door-to-door. As he told me the story the emotions were still evident. He begged his boss for another chance and told him he would work harder.
The brave boss fired my friend because he was not wired to sell anything. He was in introvert and not great at confrontation. As he was leaving, the boss told him he he should go back to school and become an educator. This was the stupidest thing my friend had ever heard.
He did go to college and got a degree in education. He quickly was promoted due to his ability. He became a principle of an elementary school and has led that organization for years. It is an amazing school in which the kids get a great education and the teachers enjoy working. He is one of the best educators in the state and is highly respected and regarded.
He will tell you his failure early in his career catapulted him to greater heights than he ever dreamed.
Don’t fear failure – it is your friend for so many reasons! So try, leap, march out, and if you fail you will know how not to do it the next time! Remember Thomas Edison? It is how he invented many of the things we cherish.
Yours to count on,
Pastor Chris
5 Comments
This is so true Pastor. Failure can come to lead us to greater opportunities, or it can come as a result of our bad choices. Failure can also be a great motivator when an individual does not allow the failure to define them. If we never failed, we wouldn’t have the great opportunity to see ourselves and others overcome it and rejoice in the victory God grants us! Have a blessed week!
Wonderful story, we can all relate, I’m sure. As we continue learning about our Lord, let’s remember that our failures allows us to be humbled and for Him to work even more in our lives. He didn’t die because we are perfect…
So true. Sometimes we need that push whether we know it or not to get out of a situation that is not where we are meant to be and we are not strong enough to move from ourselves. I thank God for failures sometimes!
I’ve always been told,if you don’t succeed try,try again.
It paid off for your friend to take advise of his boss and his boss to go forward and fire him with advise to help. Not all bosses give advise upon firing you,nor does a teacher who fails you in a class. You did the job as best you could you did all the homework took the tests that weren’t A’s when you got them back. The boss wanted something more then like even he wasn’t able to due. The teacher was looking for one thing and you weren’t getting it. The co-work or the co-student was more worried about the curve outcome and the intravt can be a good sales person. The student having a time of it comprehending the matter can make it when the teacher is willing to metor or assit in finding a mentor for that student.
Thomas Edison may have failed several times and in the end he had many who were willing to help and let him take the credit. So did Abraham Lincolin His failed attemps to be President. He finally made it to be president because he had people knowing what he was about and wanted him to have success. We don’t have success all on our own.
True we ought not be afraid to fail for there is learning in each and every trial. So often we are kept down because we don’t look for support to lift us up or else the support lets us down because they are so wraped up in their own ordeal of life to help the person who has failed. It’s nice when a class is pass or fail no grade attached to it. We grade one another. We often say on a scale of 1-10 that person can have our help to succeed. We need one another. God made us that way. We’re not to be on this life journey alone. When we have lemons make lemon ad. When you’ve failed let people know. Let them know what your skills are and they already know your personality if their a friend at all. You are your employers greatest asset! If they don’t see it another employer will. You can also have failure in relationships. Once again if they don’t see your worth another person will and make you a friend. It’s a matter of try try again until ever peice of life falls in where God wants life to fall.
Romans 8:28 comes to mind. Failure, if submitted to the hands of God,can and does become a beautiful thing and fear of it is also an opportunity to grow. At least that’s been my experience after I got over all the boo hooing.