You Are Not Defined By Failure

If You Have Faced Failure, This Is A MUST READ.

Do you have a $2/$5 note on you?

Take it out. I'm gonna ask you to do something with it. Follow my instructions:

1. If you are inside the house, go outside now.

2. Look for a puddle of water with lots of mud. Go over to it.

3. Throw that $2/$5 note down into that puddle of water. Step on it so that it will get soaked.

4. After that, you kick it over to the mud. Step on it and kick it around in the mud till its really dirty, then kick heaps of mud onto it till its buried.

5. Now leave it and go back home.

...just joking...

6. Dig it up with both hands, go wash that note, dry it, and get back into the house.

The Dictionary tells us that "Failure" is a 'State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success'. Now that seems like a very bad state to be in. Nobody wants to not reach their objectives, nobody wants to not succeed. That, is a very, very dangerous path.

BUT!

What the dictionary does not tell us is this:

In order to succeed, we must first fail.

In order for us to know what it feels like to be on top of the world, we have to first know what it feels like to be at the bottom, in order for us to have made it this far in our educational life, we have had to have gotten a good, great number of test & assignment papers with very unpleasant grades, the very fact that you and I are here now, afraid, scared shitless of what the results would be, is a direct evidence that it was not easy getting here. HOW? Its simple. If we know we messed up a lot, that our internal marks were not really good, then we know that we might fail. We are afraid because of our past failures. But if we do not fail, which I believe we wont, then we succeed. And that just proves that to be successful, you first have to fail.

Therefore, failure is not, and I repeat, NOT, a bad thing or state to be in.

It is YOUR REACTION and MY REACTION towards it that is the Problem.

Take Thomas Edison for example. He failed countless times before finally creating the first successful light bulb. They say more than 1000 times, but I believe he failed even more than that. And what hits me is his response when asked if he had failed a lot of times. He said: 'I have not failed 1000 times, I have only found 1000 ways that won’t work.'

That right there was HIS REACTION towards failure. He took it head on. He was positive all the way. He Never Gave Up on His Dream/Ambition/Goal/etc...

FAILURE DID NOT DEFINE HIM,

BECAUSE HE DID NOT LET IT DO SO. He knew who he was and what he was capable of. He Kept Trying.

You & I are like that $2/$5 that we used at the start. And God is the Owner of that $2/$5 note. When we fail in life, we find ourselves been pushed under a puddle of dirty water. We find ourselves been tossed and turned around in the mud of hopelessness, until we are finally buried. Until we are at our lowest. Until we are fully drained of strength-mentally.

That Is When God Comes In To PULL! US! OUT!

TO WASH! US! CLEAN!

TO DRY US! AND TO TAKE! US! BACK!

BUT!!!!!

God is waiting for OUR REACTION. We have to choose Him. We have to stay Positive. We have to NOT GIVE UP!

WE HAVE TO KEEP TRYING!!!

Because No Matter How Many Times We Fail, Just Like That $2/$5 Note, OUR VALUE REMAINS! WHAT WE ARE CAPABLE OF IS STILL INSIDE US. OUR POTENTIAL TO SUCCEED IS STILL IN US!

FAILURE DOES NOT DEFINE US.

WE ARE WHO WE ARE.

GODS CREATION. HIS MASTERPIECE.

AND WE ARE ALL DESTINED FOR GREATNESS.

The Question Is:

When You & I Fail,

What Would Our Reaction Be???

Thank You for reading.