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Failure is a Event not a Life Sentence
by Jennifer Molloy
7/18/2013 / Poetry
Psalm 34:5
They looked to Him and were radiant,
And their faces will never be ashamed
Ephesians 2:7-8
so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and [a]that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
Jesus knew we could never live our life's as the perfect image of his Son that's why we were saved by grace through our faith in Jesus Christ. We as Christians are in Jesus eyes exempt from that label of failure. When we try and fall short and we confess it to Him we are immediately forgiven and He instantly restores us to Himself and wraps us in His unconditional love.
It is only in the flesh that we give others the power to hold past failures over us and if this is done be someone we hold in high esteem that one failed event can become a life sentence. Where sorrow, self contempt, and self loathing eventually can derail a person into a life sentence of regret, remorse bitterness and sometimes total destruction.
When we really start to read and understand the scriptures that tell us about the Lord's character we really start to understand how much the Lord loves us. We can drop our guard and when we turn our faces up to him we can be radiant with joy because we know that we finally have a father that will never leave us or forsake us or be ashamed of us.
Ever since she lost her business
Her life never was the same
Someone accused her of fraud
And she had to fight to save her name
Friends and Family don't stand by her
I guess they were ashamed
It didn't even occur to them she
might not be the one to blame
Even though she went to court
and cleared her name things were not the same
The never said that they were sorry
that they misjudged her so
and misery filled her heart
and her self loathing would not go
Financial problems started it was
hard to hold a job
panic attacks soon followed
and her self-confidence was gone
Constant illness followed and
for a long time she just wished that she would die
Nobody ever really knew how close she came
to following through with suicide
For it was on that very night when
she planned to take her life
Jesus Christ was waiting to end her
pain and strive
He talked to her very soul
and filled her heart with his sweet peace
He told her that he would be there
for her and his love would never cease
It would be many years later
after seeking high and low
that she would start to really
understand him and how he loves her so
But now when something happens and
things they don' t work out the way she planned
she knows the failure is but a moment and she
can place it in Jesus hands
Knowing that she is forgiven forever
She can finally forgive herself this day
She has already forgiven the others
who helped to make her feel this way
From now on it doesn't matter
what other people think or say
the only person she seeks to please
Is Jesus Christ this day
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I am a freelance writer and poet that writes poetry and commentary on my christian life. I live in northern Ont. on a small hobby farm with my husband and an assortment of dogs, cats,horses,donkey and goats. I write to glorify my savior.
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