Today You Failed

Many of us have experienced a day where we are put up on the chopping block and judged on our past results. A possible promotion, a step further in a relationship, or some sort of hopeful breakthrough that you’ve been basing your hard work off of is up for grabs.

What you’ve worked for finally comes to one important conversation and interaction.

Thinking you have done everything in your power to achieve this goal, you begin to expect fruits of your labor.

Then you get blind sighted with words contrary to what you were expecting. When that happens all the work you put in seems like it was in vein, and the word fail, fail, fail is all you hear inside your head.

Why is this situation so hard to face?

I think it is hard because of the comparison you put yourself up against. No matter what we do here on earth our culture stacks our achievements up against others. We are placed in judgmental categories based on our job title, relationship status, salary, and the list goes on.

As individuals we get caught up in that culture driven mindset, but what I’ve experienced and learned from these types of failures is that comparing yourself to others is a slippery slop - in a way that you lose. You lose emotionally, productively and spiritually.

Stop comparing yourself with meaningless job titles or other people’s success, and start leaning on the source who knows your way and path. Lean on truth and purpose rather than materialistic things. Instead of comparing, look to where you are at now and to where you want to be. Turn your failure into a positive effect in your life and others around you. For example, help someone else other than yourself, give, pour your time into what will get you up and out of your failure. Focus on the things that matter. Focus on the most powerful resource that is in God.

When that is done you will start to realize that the job title or paycheck you really desired before will be fulfilled making you grasp the things that mean the most to you tighter.

I feel overjoyed knowing that God is present through failure. Knowing that he never left and that he has a plan for me to prosper. Understanding that the Holy Spirit meets me at the bottom of these failures can give hope. I heard somewhere that even a live dog has more hope than a dead lion. Stay alive.

There is nothing more exciting than to have God’s power on my side. There is nothing more exciting to see results through focusing on absolute truth and having faith in the plan that God has for me.

I never have to compare myself with anyone else anymore because I answer to the one who gives extravagant grace, intense love, and joyful hope. I stand on a rock and I will not contradict my firm stance to keep up with the comparison of others.

I think God wants us to give our best rather than having the mindset of being the best. Giving our best means that we focus on others. Giving our best for others will create actions that will propel us to be the best. See how that works? I truly believe in that.

In an organic way, through a pure others focused mindset, God picks our struggles and pieces off the floor and finds a way to make us the best at what we do. With God, there is no more comparison in failure and life.