When you fail, don’t feel sorry for yourself and wallow in self-pity. God loves you and has chosen you as a vessel to carry His gift to the world. He doesn’t make bad decisions. So get back on your feet and get started moving forward again.
Forgiveness
Jack Frost
Though unconditional love is free, it is a costly business. Accepting God’s gracious gift and dwelling in intimacy will cost you everything, especially your pride. God’s nature is one of love and light; He will love you unconditionally, but because He is light, it will be very difficult for you to choose to walk in darkness and maintain intimacy in relationships with God and others.
Andrew Sexton
Think of life as a race along an obstacle course. This is not a race against others, rather a personal endurance race to make it to the end. From the moment we leave the starting blocks we should no longer be concerned with what happened behind us, since we can’t do anything to change it. We must use all our strength and skill to navigate what lies ahead. We must reach the finish line at all cost.
David Jeremiah
God specializes in forgiving failures. There is nothing you have done that cannot be forgiven if you come to God in repentance. Once you have asked for God’s forgiveness, receive it. It is a gift of grace that you cannot earn.
Bob Goff
God is big enough and loves me enough to say He forgives me. I should actually believe Him. I mean, I shouldn’t keep feeling bad about all of the times I’ve messed up because that’s ignoring what God said. When I don’t trust God’s forgiveness, it’s kind of like saying I really don’t believe He’s that good.
Max Lucado
We will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.
T.J. Green
God is an expert at redeeming our past mistakes to propel us in our destiny. The very things the enemy would use to disqualify you, God can use to display His grace in your life. In the story of Jonah, we have an unsuccessful prophet who runs in the opposite direction of the calling on his life. Despite his rebellion, God had already made supply and set in motion a master plan to get him back on track. The city of Ninevah heard of this fantastic fish journey that this rebellious prophet of God took, and the whole city repented and was saved. Gods grace turned Jonah’s mistake into a whole city being saved. What mistakes in your life is God redeeming and making into a fantastic and beautiful story of grace?
Jack Hayford
The wisest believer is that one who comes openhearted for cleansing and who knows that God’s summons to repentance is gracious.
Bryn Waddell
Cancel culture – “We will bring up every thing you’ve ever done wrong and attempt to ruin your past, present, and future with it. We call this morality, love, and compassion.”
Kingdom of God – “His blood has washed away every thing you’ve ever done wrong and erases your past, establishes your present, and brings hopeful security to your future. We call this the Gospel” One is not like the other.
Jack Hayford
Forgiving those who assail you is the key to not being permanently victimized by them. Whatever the initial impact of any offense done to us by others, our refusal to react, to carry a grudge or to retaliate in kind secures the high ground. But that must be as real on our part as the Savior’s forgiveness, not merely a humanistic, self-willed exercise in self-control. The latter may appear noble, but it only breeds an internalized pride. True forgiveness springs from gratitude to God for His forgiving me. True forgiveness is born of my remembrance that I have been forgiven so great a debt through God’s love that there is no justification for my being less than fully forgiving to others. Because I have “freely received,” my Lord calls me to “freely give.” To forgive those seeking to injure you or me is to remove ourselves from their control and to be unfettered by the anger, pain or disappointment that would seek to attach itself to us.