Topic: God And Failure

We fail. Sometimes, we fail in miserable ways. At times, even the most successful person fails in miserable ways. Everyone must confront failure. For example, Adam and Eve failed. Adam and Eve did not respect God or respect His love enough. Adam and Eve did not believe in Him or trust Him enough. Because God created Adam and Eve with the ability to think for themselves, they were tempted, and they failed. The record of all mankind is a demonstration of man's failure to come to God as His fallen children. As Christ rode into Jerusalem He knew His sacrifice was only going to touch a small remnant of humanity. In terms of just the numbers of people He would reach, His sacrifice could be considered a failure in worldly terms. It would have been humanly reasonable for Him to hope only for a little more time to reach others. It would have been humanly reasonable for Him to want to do a little more work, and to exert a little more effort in hopes of reaching still others who were lost. At the moment of His death, world-wide conditions upon the earth were pretty much the same as they were at the time of His birth. As Christians, today we are only a remnant. We are only a small band of believers. Today we face a world of torment, death, sickness, disease, poverty, war, and the rejection of God at nearly every turn. Failure to turn things around is apparent. What do we do when efforts fail? What do we do when there is no hope? What we are supposed to do is glorify God by trying to live as God's Son taught us to live. What we are to do is come back against failure by trying again, and again.

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