Daily Devotional
Dare To Fight Failure
Text: Esther 4:16
“Go, gather all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me; neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!”
Message
David dared to fight Goliath because of the reward of success. When he heard that he would be the king’s in-law, free from taxation, and other handsome rewards, he said to himself, ‘Wow, what is more rewarding than success?’
Have you failed in school? Have you failed in marriage? Have you failed in business or ministry?
Hear what God said to Cain, “…Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him” (Gen. 4:6-7).
Cain failed and became crestfallen and downcast. God came to him and said, ‘Guy, what’s up? It’s a normal thing, get up and go do it again.’ But Cain was obsessed with envy and jealousy because he felt life was not fair to him. He remained a failure till tomorrow.
You are not alone. Life deals an unfair hand to all of us. It is incumbent on you to look at what life could give you and not what it has denied you.
Generally, except for the exceptionally favored as Esther, life does not answer you just at once or on a lone trial. It is multiple trials during which life will diligently question your *Passion* for what you want.
How desperately desirous are you of that thing? Life will question the Purpose for what you want. It will ask you what or whose purpose does what you want serve?
Life would further examine your *Pursuit* of what you want. That is, whether you are committed to what you want or the reverse is the case. That’s why you must ask, seek and knock for you to succeed.
While questioning you on your ideals life will be examining you on the scale of *persistence* , *patience* , and *perseverance*.
Have you given up or accepted your supposed failure? Beloved, it is not yet over for you. Dust yourself, pick up the digger and the shovel and go out there and keep digging. He is a failure who gives up after failing. You are a failure not because you failed but because you refused to try again!
Keep trying until you win.
Be the Esther, “If I die, I die”. But Esther did not die. She succeeded. You will succeed.
Amen.
