NEW EVERY MORNING
Have you ever been tempted to define yourself by your failure rather than by the grace of God? When that thought comes, you need to deal with it quickly or it threatens to ruin not just your day but your life! The Bible is a frank record of those who failed but began again through the grace of God – take Peter, Thomas and Paul for example. Whether your failure is caused by wrong actions, wrong belief or wrong deeds, God’s grace is enough as it was for each one of these examples. Quotes from famous people tend to major on what we can learn from failure with the incentive that if we’ve never failed then we’ve never tried. Whilst there’s truth in this, some failure for a Christian can cripple them and rot the soul – at that point, only God’s Word can rehabilitate and heal the soul:
- ‘Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness’ – Lamentations 3:22-23