Sometime in the past few years – oops! I’ve failed already, since I can’t remember exactly when or why – we had the opportunity to take freely a book entitled “Diamond Geezers” by Anthony Delaney. Only recently have I got round to reading it right through. Of course, Geezers refers to chaps, but there are Diamond Girlies too! So don’t think for one minute that this is all about men.
It’s not nice to be told that we are all failures, but in a sense, we are. It’s part of being human. We are disappointed when our favourite team (football, cricket, hockey, netball, etc) fails, gets beaten, doesn’t win the Cup, gain promotion, or fail to beat the drop. In fact we look down on any form of failure, because our society culture almost idolises success. Yet we hear all too often of the failures of our sports heroes, celebrities, politicians, movie stars. We feel hurt, just like we do when we don’t get the job we applied for, or someone else gets the promotion we feel we’ve earned and should have been given. We are not in the team, failed an exam, or simply ignored when something good is being given out. Failed again!
Perhaps we are not looking at it quite right. Actually we are not failures, we have just failed - and we can try again. Who says so? God does, he forgives us and invites us to be as his child, cherished, loved and always encouraged.
Proverbs 24 verse 16 says :
…though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again [ISV]
Why? How can this be? Because Jesus paid for all our mistakes, wrongdoing, failings, when he gave his life on the cross. And if He could do that for me, surely the least I could do is try again to get things right, for Him.... Isn’t it?
Jim Finch
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