It seems like every few days I mess up at work and feel like such a failure. Failure colors the rest of the day gray as it jumps on my back. I can’t think beyond it. I can’t function or concentrate on anything outside of it. Other tasks that should be easy become monumental and being sociable just doesn’t happen.
Worse—if my mistake affects someone else or I just can’t understand a project, then the failure makes me feel worthless and unimportant. Failure grips me with a wrestling hold as it clings to my back.
Ever have those days? If you do, you know how hard it is to come back from it.
“Why are you obsessing over this?” A well-known and beloved Voice whispers into my mind. “Have you forgotten that I am here?”
Sadly, that IS the case. I get caught up in my workaday world and I DO forget that I have a constant Companion who loves me. No matter how I fail, He still loves me. I am valuable to Him. I never stopped being His child. He came to carry my sin and failures on His own back.
I don’t need to walk around with a long face or dread in my heart for consequences that may never happen. He has already taken care of it. All I need to do is take my eyes off the circumstances causing me pain and turn my eyes to Him.
Will I believe Him?
He tells me to think about what I know to be true: I am His child. He will never leave my side. He will protect me and love me always. And if I am spending my time with Him and believing what I know to be true, then I don’t have to carry failure or misery around on my back. It is on His in my place.
“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God” Colossians 3: 1-3.
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