January 16, 2014

Failure Isn’t Final

Taking the shot and missing is not failure. Failure is letting fear prevent you from taking the shot.

Failures and disappointments. Aches and pains from the past that just won’t seem to go away. Most of us know what it’s like to suffer from them but too few of us know just what to do about them. So we limp along, hoping somehow they’ll magically stop hurting. But it never happens that way. In fact, the passing of time often leaves us in worse condition–not better. Because, instead of putting those painful failures behind us, we often dwell on them until they become more real to us than the actual truth about us. We focus on them until we become bogged down in depression, frozen in our tracks by the fear that if we go on, we’ll only fail again.I used to get caught in that trap a lot. Then one day when I was right in the middle of a bout with depression, God spoke up inside me and said: “Scott, your problem is you’re forming your thoughts off the past instead of the future. Don’t do that! Unbelief looks at the past and says, “See, it can’t be done.” But faith looks at the future and says, “It can be done, and according to the promises of God, it is done!” Then putting past failures behind it forever, faith steps out and acts like the victory’s already been won. No matter how bad your past may be; you have an awesome future. Don’t allow the negative thoughts to depress you and stop you from stepping into your destiny.  You have greatness inside of you. Are you ready to move past your past today?