Your Confidence Will Be Rewarded
Hebrews 10:35 “So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.” (NIV)
Have there been times in your life where you were certain that you were supposed to do something, and then you failed miserably at it? When you thought that the road that you were on was the right one, but then it all came crashing down, and not in a small way…more like a train crash that ended in a fire? Well, I’ve been there too. I’ve found myself either sitting on the floor or sitting in bed with a snack (yes, I eat in bed, don’t judge me) and not knowing where I went wrong.
The thing about failure is that it does not discriminate. It can tackle any aspect of life. It can be at work, with an art project, an exam, a mixtape, a friendship, a marriage. It can sucker punch at any turn. Truth be told, at moments like that it’s easy to give up. It’s easy to listen to all the haters that kept telling you that it wouldn’t work. In moments like that it’s easy to think that maybe you had read the whole situation wrong and that it wasn’t the right move to make.
Not only do we feel like we’ve lost our footing when failure comes knocking at the door but we also feel like our confidence has been stolen. That’s exactly where failure wants us. Hopeless, discouraged, weak and lacking confidence. I went through a season in my life where I felt like I was just stumbling and fumbling. Not really finding my footing, not feeling like I was doing things well enough. I was getting things done, I was meeting deadlines, from the outside it looked like I was doing well. But I didn’t feel like I was doing things successfully. I was just doing them because I had to.
I’m not going to pretend like it didn’t leave me knocked out on the floor, struggling to find the strength to get up again. Because it did. But I found a quote that really helped me, it said “Sometimes we fall down because there is something down there we’re supposed to find.” And that’s when I realised that failure wasn’t necessarily failure. It was just an opportunity to try out another plan, a different approach.
Failure also has the ability to show you who you are. Oftentimes our response to situations says more about our character than the situation itself. Next time failure knocks you down, be careful how you respond to failure. Do not throw away your confidence it will be rewarded.
Have there been times in your life where you were certain that you were supposed to do something, and then you failed miserably at it? When you thought that the road that you were on was the right one, but then it all came crashing down, and not in a small way…more like a train crash that ended in a fire? Well, I’ve been there too. I’ve found myself either sitting on the floor or sitting in bed with a snack (yes, I eat in bed, don’t judge me) and not knowing where I went wrong.
The thing about failure is that it does not discriminate. It can tackle any aspect of life. It can be at work, with an art project, an exam, a mixtape, a friendship, a marriage. It can sucker punch at any turn. Truth be told, at moments like that it’s easy to give up. It’s easy to listen to all the haters that kept telling you that it wouldn’t work. In moments like that it’s easy to think that maybe you had read the whole situation wrong and that it wasn’t the right move to make.
Not only do we feel like we’ve lost our footing when failure comes knocking at the door but we also feel like our confidence has been stolen. That’s exactly where failure wants us. Hopeless, discouraged, weak and lacking confidence. I went through a season in my life where I felt like I was just stumbling and fumbling. Not really finding my footing, not feeling like I was doing things well enough. I was getting things done, I was meeting deadlines, from the outside it looked like I was doing well. But I didn’t feel like I was doing things successfully. I was just doing them because I had to.
I’m not going to pretend like it didn’t leave me knocked out on the floor, struggling to find the strength to get up again. Because it did. But I found a quote that really helped me, it said “Sometimes we fall down because there is something down there we’re supposed to find.” And that’s when I realised that failure wasn’t necessarily failure. It was just an opportunity to try out another plan, a different approach.
Failure also has the ability to show you who you are. Oftentimes our response to situations says more about our character than the situation itself. Next time failure knocks you down, be careful how you respond to failure. Do not throw away your confidence it will be rewarded.