Perhaps the most difficult thing about spiritual discipline and progressing in the Christian life is guilt. We miss a day, we fail, we struggle -- and those moments are quickly defeating. We wallow in our frustration over not having done what we said we would do. In doing so, we essentially hand Satan a stick to beat us with. "Here, go ahead and beat me with this."
As I sit here writing my sermon for this weekend, ideas are coming to me for blogs, and its hard to stop what I'm doing to write. But when I checked my blog I was horrified to find that there are now 12 blogs for 14 days of January. What? I missed another one? When did that happen? After checking dates and times, I sigh at yet another failure.
Intellectually, most of us know failure has great power to motivate. We can use these moments to propel us forward as well as allowing them to drag us down. Our response to them is what makes the decisive difference. Father, I pray that my failures be minor so they do not impact others or the kingdom. Help me use them to motivate me to press forward with greater diligence. In Christ I pray. Amen.
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