November Heartbeat

“ One of God’s most effective means in our growth process is “failures”. Many of us are frantic over the fact that we could actually fail in life! And if possible, we’ll do everything we can to hide it, ignore it, or rationalize about it! And all the time we are resisting the main instrument in the Father’s hand for conforming us to the image of His Son! 
Failures in our christian life and service are allowed and often engineered by God in order to turn us completely from ourselves to His source for our life – Christ Jesus, who never fails.
The believer who’s going through struggles and set-backs is the one who’s being carefully and lovingly handled by the Lord in a very personal way. God works by paradoxes! Success comes through failures; life springs out of death. A thousand and one things are used by our Sovereign Lord to bring out our frailties and limitations, ultimately enabling us to see that the christian life has to be “not I, but Christ” Galatians 2:20