How To Respond To Failure: Part 2

Part 2: Fail Forward

Failing in your relationship with god can actually make your relationship with God better!

Striking out in baseball can make you a better hitter.

Making a “C” on a paper can get you closer to making an “A.”

Messing up as a leader can make you a better leader.

If you learn from failure you will become better. 

For some, failure is their worst enemy but if you learn from failure then it becomes your best friend. You must learn from your failures because if you don’t you will repeat them. We must learn to see failure as an opportunity.

I would not be who I am today without my failures. I have learned from them and they have made me a better person and a better leader. 

I have a four-month-old boy named McAllister. In a few months, I will teach him how to walk. He will undoubtedly fall down trying to walk. Will I call him a failure? Or will I pick him back up and tell him he did a great job trying. Falling down is part of life and it is unavoidable.

Proverbs 24:16 says, “For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, but the wicked stumble in time of calamity.”

There is something about failure that reminds us that it isn’t about us and during seasons of failure all of our junk surfaces to the top. We learn about ourselves. Our failures are where we meet God face to face in brokenness.

I recommend debriefing your failures:

Why did this happen?

What can I learn from this?

What did I do wrong?

What could I have done differently?

What did I do right that I don’t need to change?

The most spiritual thing some of us can do today is to GET BACK UP!