Lately, I have just felt like a failure. I have felt as though everything I set my hands to do has failed miserably. I just can’t seem to do anything right. Even the simplest of tasks seemed to have their setbacks. Defeat was starting to edge in. Why do I have to fail? Why can’t I be really good at just ONE thing? Why can’t I at least get something right – something easy even!? Should I just quit trying?

We go through things to share our struggles and how God helps us overcome (2 Corinthians 1:4). My failures has brought me to the moment where God finally answered my questions, and perhaps there’s someone out there that needs to hear what God spoke to me:

Just because I fail at things doesn’t mean I, as a person, am a failure. Our failures do not define us unless we allow them to stop us. Hitting roadblocks doesn’t mean stop, it means find a new route. If we are headed anywhere and hit a detour, we don’t just give up, turn around, and go home. We find a new way to get where we are heading (especially if it’s somewhere we really want to go). We are only a failure if we give up. The devil wants us to quit, but God wants us to persevere: “Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” (James 1:4)

Each day is a new day – with new mercies that never end! “The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ‘The LORD is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘therefore I will hope in him'” Lamentations 3:22-24. We all fail, but God never does. He is not short in supply of mercy.

I may fail in the things I do (or at least try to do), but that doesn’t make ME a failure. ‘For greater is He that is in me than who is in the world! (1 John 4:4). It just means the things I tried failed, and there are new mercies waiting for me again tomorrow. So long as we learn and grow from our failures, and press on through them, we are a success!