"The self talk we engage in after a failure is critical. I remember years ago being in a grocery store. I passed a man in an isle who obviously had some psychological issues. When he reached for something on a shelf, he'd say, 'No you dumb thing, you dumb thing!' He put that item back and reached for another, saying again, 'No, no, you dumb thing, you dumb thing!' While we may be tempted to laugh at my memory from the past, have we not spoken similar demeaning messages to ourselves at our moment of failure? Why not try some of David's words from the Psalms as he cried out to God after his greatest failure? 'Search me and know me. Try my heart. See if there be any wicked way in me. And lead me in the way everlasting.'
SO WHAT?
Men and Women, when you fall, get up, brush yourself off, and get back in the race! While rising say, 'I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me!'"
