This concept of reversing the trend has been spoken about at lengths in sermons, seminars, workshops, meetings and anywhere else you can think of. It really is something that is undergirded by healing. And through God’s providence, we all have available to us the resources necessary to turn life situations around. God created time and I don’t know if you have noticed, but from the big bang on, time is an infinite resource. It is something we are never going to run out of. If you can think eternally, which should come easily with faith, you can relax knowing if you want to do something, you have an eternity to do it, as long as it is fruitful of course. God also created us with the ability to heal. And coupled with time, we can always return from the abyss of disappointment. But we actually have to actively leave it. And beyond that, we can be determined to achieve, next time, what ever we didn’t achieve the previous time.
And I believe, in fact I know, that God will allow you to fail in order to have you call on him and together, partake in the journey out of failure and into success. Unfortunately, this is where the greatest spiritual growth happens. No pain, no gain. Pain is your enemy, yeah! Well we need to love our enemies.
And I believe, in fact I know, that God will allow you to fail in order to have you call on him and together, partake in the journey out of failure and into success. Unfortunately, this is where the greatest spiritual growth happens. No pain, no gain. Pain is your enemy, yeah! Well we need to love our enemies.
Speaker and author, Michael Hyatt, has written a blog post on this subject referring to it as composting your failures, which is a great way to describe getting growth out of a healthy historical perspective. But we have to remember to keep most of our focus on the goal ahead, but use the past as a tool to get there. That is why the rearview mirror is so much smaller than the front windscreen, as to go forward you need to see more of the forward and less of the behind. Rocky Balboa did it all through the Rocky series. He’d get a whooping, get the eye of the tiger and then come back and give a whooping. He used his failure to go forward. This is where we can all be warriors. And that is exactly what God has called us to be. So no matter what it is that has left you in a rut, you can get out of it. And when you (and God) turn your fortunes around, there is no better experience. It’s ten times better than if you had of achieved it the first time without failure. One outta two can be better than one outta one!
Personally, I saw this happen with my football. I began playing senior football in 1995 and played in my first senior grand final in 1997. I wanted nothing more in life at that time, than to win a premiership so when we lost by 10 goals, I was gutted. Two years later in 1999, we again made the grand final and lost by a point. This time I was more than gutted. I was inconsolable after the game and haunted by the result for months. The next year, 2000, we made the grand final again and hadn’t beaten the team we were playing that year, however this time, against the odds, we won by two points. And I know God had his hand right in the middle of it because the final score was 99 to 97, the previous years we had failed. And this is how faithful God is because I wasn’t even saved yet, but he still gave me this gift and an invaluable lesson 8 years before I would give my heart to him. What an amazing God! With him we can reverse any trend....
