We all have a God-given purpose for our lives. We pray and ask God to reveal what He wants us to do for Him and He is faithful to let us know the purpose and equip us. But what if we fail?
I don’t doubt that God called me to write for Him any more than I doubt that I have failed Him many times.
The Bible is filled with flawed characters who all they had to do was what God asked them to do and everything would be fine. But guess what—they didn’t. They failed.
Beginning with Adam and Eve. They lived in the Garden of Eden, God’s paradise on earth. They had everything they needed. God’s only direction to Adam was don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Which they did of course, and because of it, sin entered the world. Hope seemed lost. It wasn’t. God already had a plan in place to fix their mistake.
Abraham and Sarah took matters into their own hands and decided to “help” God along in His promise and look how that turned out. Yet still, God made it work and blessed Abraham.
David was a man after God’s own heart and yet he committed adultery and then murder. God forgave David and got him back on track. And from David’s line, the Messiah came.
One of Jesus’ chosen followers failed Him. Peter denied he knew Jesus and yet he later became a great apostle and served God until he was martyred.
There are so many examples of people who failed God in the Bible and yet He made it all work out.
So, no matter what your purpose is for God, even if you’ve failed miserably in the past, don’t give up. God is in the business of fixing our mistakes and setting us back on the right track.
What an amazing God we serve.
2 Corinthians 12:9 says, And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness.
Many blessings!
Mary
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