Failure is often a catalyst to faith in the Kingdom of God. Oftentimes we assume that God can’t use areas of our lives where we lack capability and craft. Thus, we confine and constrict ourselves to what’s comfortable and familiar, instead of leaping into the land of risk.
Yet, it’s often in the land of risk that we find the catalysts to greater depth of the supernatural in our life.
Now, let me be clear; I am not encouraging any sense of moral failure in order to reach greater levels of faith, but it is obvious that Jesus created a culture of faith around Him.
The Bible says that Judas was a thief and Jesus knew it (John 12:4-7). Yet Jesus made Judas the treasurer of His ministry. Why would Jesus make Judas the treasurer when He knew that he was a thief?
This culture of faith was manifested in Jesus’ trusting people before they deserved it. This resulted in eleven men becoming world-changers and one man hanging himself; world-changers are only developed in a culture of faith.
Faith requires risk; however, risk doesn’t mean reckless — we need the wisdom of God when approaching problems beyond our power.
But, the beauty of the Gospel is that God wants a relationship with you: He wants to partner with you to solve the problems of our day and brave a path of Heavenly brilliance.
The Lord entrusts us with challenges that require us to lean into faith and partner with the Holy Spirit in order to succeed.
With the new year just kicking in prayer is that you would be filled with faith in what the future holds. I hope that the areas of your life that you have counted as failures or losses would become your greatest anchor of faith and you would be beaming with hope for what the new year could hold with greater levels of faith.
Adapted from a blog by Kris Vallatton 29.12.2021