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Failure hurts! It’s disappointing, embarrassing, humiliating. Say anything you want about its benefits, say it builds character, say it teaches us compassion; it still hurts. That is not to say that the benefits are not real, for they are, but it still hurts. Failure can contribute significantly to personal development, but that does not nullify the pain. It redeems it, gives it a noble purpose, but it does not eliminate it. Any way you cut it, failure hurts!
“For though a righteous man falls seven times, he rises again.”
— Proverbs 24:16
Lord Jesus, redeem our painful failures I pray. Turn them into learning experiences. Use them to equip us for life and ministry. In Your holy name I pray. Amen.