When you are in a situation and you try, and you try, and you try.  And things wind up ending, is that viewed as failure?  Can failure ever be a relief?

 

 

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as I think about my situation, I realize more than ever I HAVE to walk by faith, believing that God is walking with me. I wanted to share this little insert to an article I was reading about walking by faith. Sometimes failure is the begining.

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(From Forerunner Commentary) Proverbs 16:9 (Go to this verse :: Verse pop-up)


Sometimes those steps move sideways, backwards, or perhaps over a circuitous detour. Sometimes God steers us away from horrendous unseen obstacles while we mistakenly think that He is thwarting us or not answering our prayers. Verse 25 suggests, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death." Is it possible that, if we always received what we prayed for and set our minds upon, it would also lead to death? Jeremiah 10:23 affirms, "O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps." He implies that, without God, man's plans always end in failure and ruin.



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