What Happens When We Fail? Part 1

 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep. John 21:17

This week’s blogosphere will focus on answering a common question in the Christian life; what happens if we fail the Lord?  In today’s Bible reading, the Lord had asked Simon Peter questions about the fervency of his love for Him; this came about as a result of Peter’s sin of denying the Lord.  Even though Peter had made promises to Jesus not to forsake Him and even die for Him (Mark 14:31), when the Roman guards captured Jesus – Peter abandoned Jesus and told a group of inquiring women that he did not even know who Jesus was. (John 18)

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All of us, from time to time, will fail to do what is right for the Lord.  Often times, we fail in our commitments and promises to follow God.  Someone makes a promise, they break the promise, the fail to follow the Lord, they feel guilty because of the failure, so they decide to forsake the Lord all together!  All broken promises to God lead to separation from the Lord.  Why?

Sometimes we interpret failures as a “stop sign”.  (Isn’t it funny some of us run right through real stop signs on the road, but we stop in our spiritual life at failures!)  Instead, interpret failures as a “caution” sign; the failures help us to step back, look a little closer at what we have promised the Lord to do, and go forward with more knowledge of the limitations we have:  all while still serving Him!

How can we turn failures in successes in our walk with Him?  Can’t wait for the rest of the series?  Listen to the sermon below.


05.12.2013 - Pastor Doug Mann - Courage - 
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