If you fail, will you try again?
So I was at the skate park the other day. Now I have tried to drop in on the deep side of the bowl before and it turned out treacherous. About a year ago tried droping the deep side and I basically dove off of a 12 foot ledge straight to my head. It was not good. Everybody was cheering me to drop, and then when dropped straight to my face, everybody was like “ohhhhhhh!” Since then I have been freaked out to drop the deep side, or any side for that matter. But the other day, there I am, I find myself standing on the deep side with my pastor yelling at me, just do it man! This is what we always talk about “go all out for Jesus”, its all or nothing man. And there is this little kid, like 8 years old, standing next to me saying “just go for it man it’s easy” as he drops in like it aint no thing. My heart is pumping, half with fear ready to poop my pants, half with rage at this little grom for dropping in and making me look like a fool.
So I finally hang my board over the edge and look over the edge of what seems to be a skyscraper. I can hear my Pastor “just do it, go all out, no holding back…..stop being a Nancy and GO!” I lean over throughing caution to the wind, I can feel the comfort of safety being left behind me, I am entering into a new place of unknown. Fear that it may not turn out so hot runs through my whole body. Wind rushing past me as I plumit to the bottom, AND I MAKE THE TRANSITION!!!!!! Everybody standing around the bowl cheers!!! Once is luck twice is stuck, I get up for number two, I drop and stick another one. Booo yeah! I did it.
I realized, in this life we may fail. And failure has paralyzed many people from ever truly living life. We often live in fear of what others might think, fear of getting hurt, fear of being laughed at. Maybe our fear comes because of past experiences past failures.
I realized at the skatepark that even though we mail fail, we can try again. Thomas Edison had over 1,000 failed attempts to create the lightbulb, but he never gave up. Maybe you have been trying to overcome a certain area of sin in your life, but you have continued to fail. Will you continue to strive to live out God’s standard in your life. Maybe you have tried to live out the Christian life and have failed. Tried to be diligent in reading your Bible, but have fallen short. Maybe you have tried to share the message of the gospel with your friend but they shut you down. Will you continue to share. After all Paul said that he labored and toiled, aka worked his booty off, to share the gospel. But Paul said that he labored according to the power of Christ living in and through him.
I realized that I may fail, it may be dangerous, difficult, scary, but just as I go all out in skateboarding I am going to go all out in my walk with God. Go all out in sharing the greatest message of forgiveness and redemption with my friends. I challenge you to do the same.
September 15, 2008 at 6:21 pm
hi my name is Jill, and i have somehing to share, more like ask, but anyways… i was in the bus last week and this boy a friend of mine that i am sad to say that he hates God. that is what he told me. well… i told him that even if he does hate God, God will continue to Love him back.
he also asked why does he send us to hell if he Loves us(and i was thinking “yeah, why?) i was also thinking (there are Christians in here who are listening to this why won’t they help me?) but i said to him because he wants to punish us.(is that true what is said?) I really want to just yell at the other Christians that are listening but not helping me. I wanted to tell them that they go to Church for nothing. i just don’t understand any of it. there is this guy (dillon) that goes to my Church but also went to summer Breeze this year. he was on the boy’s side asking me questions and being all cool, but they don’t know that they are actually are acting like children(the weird kind and Zane was right, after Summer Breeze camp some of us will change and some of us will continue on with their lives like they didn’t here anything from Zane’s testimonies.) Why are they doing this and why aren’t the Christians in my bus who are listening to me won’t help me? are they afraid? I mean these kids also went to church camp with me and are in my church to.
September 29, 2008 at 1:04 am
zane bro.I needed this a lot.
October 13, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Follow up:
Thomas Edison later said “I didn’t fail, I just found 1000 ways not to make a light bulb”
Just a thought, ya know.
So take failure as a learning experiance, and “press toward the mark of the high calling of God”
October 16, 2008 at 3:30 pm
this reminds me of my ADHD.
I was diangotic as ADHD when i was 12 year old. being ADHD really bring me down. i was the most hyperactive kid you ever met. my medication was allerall Xr and Allerall. two of them. mine was the severe one. my school life was really bad… i got trouble a lots. being in dentention and not turing my homework on times and all that and it has caught my grades go down. and Not only that the teachers from High school… just told my mom they want me to be in special ed or go to deaf school. of course my mom got mad because it like saying that im dumb because of my disabilities of hearing impairment but im not dumb im smart i can do it but i need littlbe bit of help. of course Teachers about ADHD or Hearing impairment.
it was hard but i am now im homeschool. it got me through and im almost finished it and im almost going to College! i can tell the school. look here i am. im not faliure im smart and i can do it.