Handling Failure

How does a person best handle failure? For every winner in life, there are far more individuals who have competed and lost.

How do you get up and go on?

Well first, we need to understand that failing does not make us a failure. It just means that we did fail… this time.

There are numerous stories in the Bible of people who failed, but were not failures. Saul of Tarsus failed at first in not understanding that Jesus was the Messiah.  When he learned, he overcame failure.

This same Saul, whose name was changed to Paul, thought John Mark was a failure because he turned back and went home on the Paul’s first missionary journey.  But John Mark would later earn the respect of Paul and others by his faithfulness in his work. He was a close associate of the apostle Peter.

Peter denied the Lord three times, but ended up preaching the first gospel sermon in Jerusalem.

We haven’t failed.  We’re not finished yet.