I've Failed!

I'll admit it. I'm a failure.

It's only been a few weeks into the year and I've already failed at least 2 of my goals for 2016. Last week I didn't post any blog posts at all and my tweeting everyday on both my personal and professional accounts have fallen flat.

Failed. It was going so well too.

I can put the blame on a number of things. Struggled to actually be motivated to tweet anything vaguely interesting, Writers block, lack of time, life got in the way... I can go on.

The truth is, we've all failed a long the way. I'm sure I'm not the only one who, come February looks back and realised how far they've fallen from their New year Resolutions.

Lets face it, we've all failed.

But is it because on the New Years day we ask ourselves the wrong question? We ask, what do I need to do to be better? Our soul motivation to succeed that goal is for us to become a "better me". By reaching that goal we can become happier in ourselves until we decide on the next goal. When we fail, we know that reaching the better me has gone! And we give up.

Society cries out that Failure's not an option.

You fail, and you're written off.

But should we be thinking about failure, so harshly?

As a Christian, I believe there is another way...

If ever there was a church that failed, it was the church in Corinth. It was filled with scandal! People arguing with one another, taking legal action on one another and sexual immorality. It was a mess. It was far from reflecting God's love to the world.

When Paul writes his first letter to the church, you might have expected that the church would be rebuked and told to disperse or even disassociating himself from the mess of the Corinthian church. But instead he writes this;

I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. (1 Corinthians 1:4)

This is crazy. Outrageous even! After the initial shock the Corinthians would have had that they weren't thanked by God for anything positive, the fact that Paul declares that there's more grace for them is amazing. This was a church full of mess and even that wasn't enough to kick them out of favour of God. Paul calls them out to repent and to amend their ways to show this Grace but nonetheless they were given another chance.

We've been given countless second chances, thanks to the cross.

When we fail, we are picked up and go again.

When we fail, we've not written off. We're given an outstretched arm instead.

With God, we may fail him, but he never gives up on us.