Failures

It's amazing sometimes how our thinking doesn't go along with what God intends and desires for our lives. We face tests and trials and decisions every day. Often we fail and in our own way of thinking, we feel we have become a failure, when God is actually standing there watching all the time, knowing our end-results.

One of my former pastors reflected on this in a message I heard recently. He said that our failures are nothing more than the grace of God allowing us to fall on our faces to reveal to us flaws and imperfections in our lives that he wants us to work on. Self-revelation is sometimes a hard teacher, but it's things he knows about us that are hidden deep within that he wants to bring out in the open so he can help us correct them.

It's not always the obvious flaws in us that everyone sees that are the most damaging. The superficial, God can clean up in a moment of time. It's the hidden man of the heart that he desires to reveal, cleanse and perfect. If he didn't allow the storm, trial or test to come along to reveal those things in us, the chance of our own self pride taking over and feeling we had come to perfection and maturity before our time would be a great risk to our life. Pride comes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. His tests and trials keep us humble and show us areas we need to correct.

I've learned a lesson about this site...type it in WORD first then post it. I lost two hours of blog text and probably the best message and notes I've produced to date. Hopefully, like Jonah, the word of the Lord will come a second time.... ;)