Why do we sometimes think and rethink and then rethink again daily trivial decisions? We don’t want to fail.
Why don’t we want to fail? You’d think that’s common sense. Why would anyone want to fail?
But let’s dig a bit deeper. What’s the first thing we think of when we fail? It usually isn’t the mistake itself as much as it is people’s perception of us after the failure, especially if it’s people whose opinion of us matters… people we’re trying to impress.
We all know we’re human and that we all make mistakes, but our pride and egocentricity prevent us for actually living this reality. But if we think back through our lives, we’ll realize that some of the biggest lessons we learned and some of the deepest shaping of our characters took place during times of pain and failure.
Shouldn’t this change our perception of failure? What if we accepted our failures as a great means of learning, acknowledging our finitude, dying to our egos and desire to impress, and becoming more like Christ? If we allow Him to, God will use our failures to shape and purify our characters, which is incomparable to our petty concerns about our “image” 🙂