“If you make an attempt and don’t succeed, that is not a failure. All you’ve done is discovered one way not to proceed. Get up, learn from your experience, and make another attempt.”
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV)
The Apostle Paul grasped onto his weakness as his strength in the Lord. More so, he boasted of his weakness. It enthused the apostle to see Christ as his salvation and his strength, even in his failures.
Failing is giving up. That can never be our option. If the apostle had thrown up his hands in despair each time something bad happened in his life, modern Christendom would be missing a large portion of the New Testament.
Whatever our weaknesses are, our duty in Christ is to lay them on Him, to depend on our Lord to be there when we are weak, and to call upon Him to be our strength and our fortress.
From Success-Speak: The Art of Maximizing Your Potential Through What You Say, by Steven K. Dunn, Day 3