Find The Glory In Your Failures

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 In our faith, I believe that one of the most common weaknesses among us is in thinking that, if our faith is strong, then we will not fail. We will succeed with the help of God and we aren't going to mess up. But you see, my friend, with this mentality, we think all of this, but then when we do fail, which we will, we are let down, disappointed, and really quite stuck. But let me tell you, that, in your life and in your faith, as Mr. Emerson says, the "glory is not in never failing."
 So where is our glory then? If we do not find it in the perfection in never failing, then how are we supposed to find it? Well, you see, our glory, it actually comes from the opposite of what you might have thought. Our glory comes from our failure. Now, I know that this may sound odd to you, but it is true. You see, we are going to fail, and that is really an inevitable fact, but it is what we do afterwards that matters.
  When we fail, when we mess up or fall flat our face, we are offered a choice. We can either sit around in our failure, complaining about how it all went wrong and apologizing that we messed everything up, or we have the choice to get up, shake it off, and keep going. And in the journey when we make that choice to keep going, that is when the glory of God is going to be revealed to us. We are no longer going to be stuck in the mentality of us never failing, but we are going to rejoice in these failures because we know that we will rise back up from them, and we know that, through them, God is going to reveal to us something that He couldn't have otherwise done.
 So today, find the glory in your failures and know that God is not going to be disappointed in you, but rather, He is going to use this to make your life even greater.