Tuesday September 2, 2014
'A
righteous person may fall...but he gets up again...' Proverbs 24:16 GWT
Responding to Failure
You can tell a lot about somebody by how they
respond to life. Everybody gets knocked down, but how fast you get up again is
what counts. Verla Wallace says: 'Failure teaches us things we can't learn any
other way... Treat it as a visitor allowed to deliver unpleasant news, but
don't let it take up residence... All failures are not equal. For example, when
a beautiful, talented young woman is the first runner-up in a Beauty Pageant,
some say she failed. Yet some people would give their right arm to be named the
second most attractive female in a national competition. It's a matter of
perspective... [examine] your failures and weigh them according to their
importance in the overall scheme of things...I once received a 'D' at
college... it's ridiculous, but that sticks in my mind like a pebble in my
shoe. Why do I fixate on that and not the fact that it happened during the term
I carried nineteen credit hours, worked part-time, got engaged, and spent six
weeks in the college health center with mononucleosis? When I put the
experience in context, it loses its power to undermine my confidence. Failure
teaches us what's important. I have a friend who was downsized out of a job...
It caught her by surprise because she was good at her work. "I tended to
be full of pride," she says. "I got away with it because I was so
successful. Losing my job...humbled me. With pride you have no permission to
fail. It's a heavy yoke...and I don't wear it any more. I feel lighter in my
spirit without the burden of having to be perfect."'
Taken
from the Word for you Today Devotional
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