Today I want to talk about failure. Fear of failing is something that has haunted me ever since I was a small child. I haven't told many people this, but you're getting an inside look into that girl people call Allie. I've always wanted to do things well, and to please other people. I never wanted to let others down. When I did, well.. do, I play it off like I really don't care. I pretend like it was just a rebellious act of a teenage girl, or that I don't mind being a disappointment. FALSE. It kills me to let others down, and that's something I have been struggling with lately. I've done some pretty stupid things as a teenager. Things that I knew would cause harm either to others or to myself. I've made my share of mistakes. Thankfully, my stupid mistakes don't change the way God views me. There's no reason for me to be scared to fail, because He who lives within me is greater than any mistake i could ever make. I can never let God down, because I've never been the thing that holds him up. He's greater than every poor decision, and crafty enough to repair every blemish on his masterpiece. Righteousness (right standing with God, not to be confused with Holiness) is dependent upon Jesus Christ himself. Not me, not what I have done, not what I'm going to do in the future. If I am in Christ, and I am in union with him, then when my Daddy looks at me he sees his son! He doesn't see busted up Allie. He sees his perfect lamb. He sees a child of his who has been RANSOMED and REDEEMED!
Psalm 73:26 "My flesh may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; He is mine forever"
Did you just read that?! IF NOT, read it again. Meditate on this word until it is deep within your spirit! Why? Because even though our flesh fails, God is the STRENGTH of our hearts!!!!! And that's what God looks at. Not just actions, not just your behaviors, not sin, but he looks into the heart of man. I don't know about you, but I want God to be the strength of my heart. If he is, i never have to fear failing. I never have to fear falling short of his Glory. God's word says every man does. What am I trying to tell you? That God hasn't given you a spirit of fear (2Timothy1:7. You know, when he said "It Is Finished" He meant it. Jesus didn't mean that it was over for him, he meant that his battle with sin, the flesh, and all evil was over. HE HAS WON. Let that victory encourage you today, because he is allowing you to take part in it. He has made us victorious. Therefore, as long as you're in Christ, you're never a failure. You have the most precious thing in the universe, and that's the Love of God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVvqI1-tM4
-Victorious through Jesus.
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