Failure Is An Important Part of Your Process
By: Ifeoma Korie
Tags: Failure, Ifeoma Korie, God, Love, Process

Failure Is An Important Part of Your Process

Failure is failing. It is simply not meeting up to expected results. These results may be imaginary or real. All the same, they are expectations of success at the end of a process.

Life processes involve rules guiding all of life’s systems. For instance, the process of conception involves a gestation period of 9 months. Birthing before the expiration of this period may be hurtful. Birthing after this period may cause problems too. So for the expectant mother, birthing a child at nine months is the ideal.

This example may not be necessarily accurate but it explains a process. Well, because of the obvious consideration-scientific breakthroughs in reproductive health. Yet it implies a technology or methodology that every expectant mom must overcome. In this particular instance, every mom knows that she can not jump the process. Every stage in this process is important.

Also, the farmer has a story to tell; a thread to connect. He understands that while some crops may thrive so well in sunlight others love humid shades. He also fully understand that some crops enjoy a symbiotic relationship with some specific crops. While some prefer associations with crops of their kind. How about the pruning process of each crop?

However, the problems remain this: what happens when you fail? Especially when you followed the rules? Hurtful right? The truth is no one loves to fail even if we are to be rightfully blamed for failing. Now what to do?

It’s quite simple. Begin afresh. Stay at it. Continue with your project. With each step, you learn.

You observe, you are more intentional. You think and you seek the solution to the persisting problem. Failure is a plus, not something to be ashamed of us. You may find this statement unrealistic but it’s true.

Society Measuring Standards

Society defines failure as failing at a lot of things. These things it lists are ephemeral. Transient items that bear no weight with eternity. These things include riches, possessions, achievements. Physical items and tangibles that overtly scream a man’s net worth.

Or even seek to reinforce his relevance in the community he resides in. You know, for instance, the academic was considered the utmost achievement. Then came sports. And the business and selling, companies, mergers, and takeovers. Then came the silicon valley and the internet of things.

Contrary to what society determines as failure is, its definition does not matter. This is because, by God, failure is defined by the terms of your relationship. It is defined in the light of already established parameters with your relationship with God. Nothing and no one else determines when you fail. This means invariably that all you are is God endorsed.

Now let’s backtrack. Your failure to meet up with an expected result in your process should provoke you to seek answers. Yes, answers. And in your search for answers means you run back to God who gives without upbraiding. Why?

Because only God has your answers. Only God defines you. Only God determines when you are a failure. And what more? Only God causes you to will and to do of His good pleasure.

And because God knows you can not achieve success without Him, He factors in your failure. Failure is the factor that consistently reminds you that you are finite. Your humanity is tied to failure. Failure causes you to seek God desperately. Therefore you should not be afraid to fail.

Loving Failure

Understanding that failure is a part of your process, you initiate projects in God. Trusting God to give you perfect solutions for knotty issues. Not doubting for a second that He is the ultimate answer. Unafraid to step out, you initiate tasks in faith, mindful of God’s input. And should you fail, you seek God again.

Consistency, persistence, and insistence are indicators of your desire to achieve success. Tenacity reveals your determination to get it right. And you will. No task can resist consistency. Especially if these efforts are intentional.

Conclusion

Creation reveals the many times God failed. This failure does not in any way invalidate God’s sovereignty. Neither does it make God impotent. Rather it discloses God’s sovereignty. You appreciate God’s sovereignty in failure.

And what better way to glorify God than in your failure? Faith requires that when you step out, despite the odds against you, you won’t stop. Embrace your process. And should you fail, remember that failure is an important part of your process.