Overcoming Failure

How does a person best handle failure?

For every winner in life, there are far more individuals who have competed and lost. How do you get up and go on? Well, first we need to understand that failing does not make us a failure. It just means that we did fail this time.

Saul of Tarsus failed at first in not understanding that Jesus was the Messiah. When he learned he overcame failure. No serious Bible student would call Saul a total failure. This man Saul, whose name was changed to Paul, thought John Mark was a failure because he turned back and went home. And Paul's first missionary journey. But John Mark would later earn the respect of Paul and others by his faithfulness and his work. He was a close associate of the Apostle Peter. Peter denied the Lord three times, but ended up preaching the first gospel sermon in Jerusalem.

We haven't failed. We're not even finished yet.