The secret is failure

 

Wake the Faith up Slayer… This is Garth Heckman with the David Alliance and you can reach me at

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"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Ive lost almost 300 games. twenty six times I have been trusted with taking the game winning shot and I have missed. I have failed over an over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan

 

If I asked you how many times you prayed for the dead and they came back to life... what would be your answer? Probalby zero???

But there in lies the problem... we as Christians are afraid to fail... or as I like to think, we don't like to practice with our faith. The truth is I have had many lunches with men who tell stories of praying for lots and lots of people to come back to life and most of them have not... but they do have some adn those stories are remarkable. We often think that there is no failure in faith... we either have it or we don't. If we fail then we didnt' have enough faith or good faith or whatever you call it. 

 

But the bottom line is this: you gotta practice your faith and God will never chastise you for trying and failing in your Christian walk. We have on record the disciples praying and failing, asking questions and not believing and Jesus never told them to give up. he would say "ye of little faith, and don't you understand yet, or even rebuke them for stupid conversations... but never, never did he tell them to quit trying to exercise their faith until they knew it was perfect. 

 

Faith has to have some element of failure to it or it wouldnt' be faith... it would be fact. I know one thing about living for Christ- the word of God is fact, but living it out takes faith and with that faith comes failure. 

 

If I asked you how many prayers you have had answered in the miraculous, you might say well those are not my gifts and Im not that good of a Christian... but I rarely hear, well I have prayed about 500 times for the miraculous... and I mean intense times of prayer - and nothing has happened. YEA, LIKE I SAID, I HAVE NEVER HEARD THAT. but we don't even have that excuse because we fear failure in our Christian walk. Most of us live a safe faith... we don't push it... but is that really logical to say I have a faith in Christ if we can't prove that from our failure of trying to serve christ? 

 

Remember what it takes to be a man? He may fall 7 times but he gets back up. i.e. he never quits trying. He never quits believing, he in fact may never quit failing... but there will be some shining moments in and amongst some of those failures. 

 

Michael Bloomberg once said "If you told me you skied all day and never fell I would tell you to try another mountain". But isn't that what many of us do... we faith it safe... but again is that really a faith. Can you say you have a faith in Christ if you never exercise it? And by that I mean you have lots of stories of failures in trying to live it out.

Look I am not saying that the Christian walk is laborous - thoough at times it can be... but I am saying that it has to have its share of war stories mixed in with the triumph stories. If all you have is triumph stories - well my guess is that then they are quite few and mostly quite bland.

 

Wayne Gretzky “I miss every shot I don’t take”.