The Fear of Failure

We all have times in our lives where we fail in something.  Its part of life and the important thing is how we deal with that failure.  The fear of failure takes control of us and we do nothing because of it.   Jesus talks about this very thing in Matthew 25, when he tells about three servants that were given money by their master.  The first two servants took it and invested it and doubled it for their master.  They took risk and it worked out for them.  Then there was the third servant, he was scared of failing his master and he took his and buried it.  When he brought it back to his master, the master called him lazy, he did nothing because of fear.  We spend so much time worrying about what others think of us, that we become consumed with that and not with what God commands us to do.  We need to grow from our spiritual failures and God can use our failures to make us stronger.  For example, Billy Graham said that he had written four messages when he was first asked to preach.  He said, that I got up there and gave all four of them in about ten minutes.  What if he had said that I am not cut out for this and gave up.  He would have never became the evangelist that shared the Gospel to the countless thousands that have heard him preach.  God uses failures to give us direction in life.  This week, look to God to help you overcome your fears of failure and that He will use you for the purpose that He has for you.