I wouldn’t always interpret failure as a sign of success. I wouldn’t always interpret success as a sign of failure.
Neither would I interpret failure as a sign of failure. Nor would I interpret success as a sign of success.
Then what do we do? We discern. We discern what is true. What is honest. What has integrity. What is real. What is compassionate.
Discernment is the scarcest commodity in the world. It was in Jesus’ day. It is now.