Risking failure

Reading

Genesis 12.1-4

Now the Lord said to Abram, ‘Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I will curse; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Reflection

Sometimes – whisper it – failure is actually A Very Good Thing. It means we have taken a chance to try something new, that we’ve been bold and taken risks.

And sometimes we have to take the right risks for the right reasons, otherwise we would never move forward, learn new things or develop new relationships. Maybe we won’t get it right the first time – or the first hundred times – but each time, we will be a little closer.

Abraham takes big risks in leaving his country, his people and his homeland. And he makes plenty of mistakes as well. God doesn’t expect us to be perfect on the journey, he just wants us to go with him