The Blessing In Failing

I need for you to get up and make some mistakes today.

Not some carnal, sinful flesh serving kind of mistake, but an idea that fails. And an invention that doesn’t impress people like it did when you showed your grandpa in the garage. A talent that you’ve been afraid to pursue since you were a little kid because you never thought you were good enough. today, I need for you to try, and make some mistakes! Because every failure is an ingredient for greatness. It is the individual things that are not pleasant or delicious on their own that make up the end result from which we all can benefit.

No one takes a stick of butter and eats it on their own [no one in their right mind!] No one takes a hand full of flower and throws it in their mouth. And neither is a raw egg or extract delicious on their own.  But take them all, put them in a bowl, and mix them together and you’ll get a delicious, sweet-tasting cake.

Disappointment has been put in your bowl. Rejection and failure is in there too. Oh, and let’s not forget embarrassment. That’s a hard one to get over… but it’s in the bowl. These things don’t feel good or taste good when we’re going through them, but they are necessary ingredients for what God is cooking.

The hardest thing about dreamers — which you are — is the patience it takes to see the dream fulfilled. Every sturdy wall has pillars that go deep inside of the ground to hold the wall up. The deeper the pillars, the greater the wall.  How deep you’re prepared to go determines how great the wall God can build on your life. That’s your choice, not His. God will only give you as much of Him as you can handle. And since He’s the dream giver, that includes His dreams as well.

Dreamers also have to be comfortable being naked. That’s what inventors and needle movers in the culture do. They spend their lives presenting their private nakedness. Your inner soul is revealed by the stuff you work on when no one is watching. Frequently, you’re afraid to reveal your deep thoughts and ideas because people might laugh at them.  Most of them did.

When its time to reveal these intimate moments, you have to be able to stand in front of the masses and be okay with people judging your nakedness. They may not like what they see, and you’ve got to be ok with that. How!? By failing.

Every failure creates a layer that gets thicker every time it happens. Especially when you give thanks for the moments of failing to keep your eternal perspective of God using ALL things to work for your good.

So I need you to dust off those notes of that idea you came up with back in college. Try out for that singing part in the play this season. Be the oldest in the class room finishing your degree. It’s all good, And it’s all God.

He’s the one baking the cake.

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