| HELEN SANDERS
1-16-2026
GOD SPECIALIZES IN FAILURES
__________________
Have you ever failed God? Have you sinned and feel that God will have nothing more to do with you? Have you rejected reconciliation because you are too proud to admit you sinned and need forgiveness?
Well, do not lose hope. God specializes in failures. There isn’t a person alive or dead that has not failed God in some way.
Moses, a prince of Egypt, knew he had a call on his life as a young man. He did not wait on God for that call to come. He did things his own way and committed murder. He ran from his accusers and for over forty years lived the life of a shepherd far from his family. Then one day God spoke, and everything changed. He became the leader that brought Israel back to their “promised land.”
David committed adultery and murder. In 2 Samuel 12 three things happened.
First, Nathan the prophet confronts him with his sin. [verses 1- 14] In verse 13 David said, “… ‘I have sinned against the LORD…” Yes, he failed, but he repented.
Secondly, the child born out of the adultery died.
Thirdly, after the child died, David’s servants feared he would be beside himself over the death. Yet, despite the death of the child he said to his servants, “…While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.”
David’s faith in God was greater than his failure and the death of his child. After the child died, David comforted Bathsheba and they were given another chance, another son, who would become the wisest king, named Solomon also called Jedidiah which means beloved of the Lord.
We can take our mistakes [sin] and let them be heavy rocks that drown us, or take our mistakes [sin] and use them as steppingstones back to God. Yes, we fail, but God is greater than our failures. He specializes in failures. That is why he sent Jesus to save those that have failed!
|