Failure, what failure

Failure and success are two sides of the same coin.  The nature of man is to perceive life and living in duality. We invented names to fit that which we do not totally understand. We label things in part to reflect our limited knowledge of the whole.  In God, there is no duality, no division, no opposition and no competition. Because God is good, everything he created is good.  For example, in the book of Genesis, after each creation, and before he proceeds to create the next, God would stop to see that what he had created “was good.”  

God never created anything that failed to function in the way he had intended.  So where did man get the label from? We gave ourselves the label the moment we separated our nature from the nature of God.  Our separation from God brought us into direct opposition with everything that is good.  Opposition leads to competition.  A beautiful woman is on competition with an ugly woman. A handsome man is in competition with an ugly man. Black is in the opposite of white.  Light is against darkness. We think of success in terms of a university degree because the other person can only manage to have a diploma.  You think of your short status because you have a few tall people around you.  The list is endless.

The truth is that the way we define failure is our failure.  In God, there is no failure but perfection.  Failure is a human invention meant to define the extent of our separation from God.  It sets the limit of what we can do, what we can be and what we can have.  To live our lives in the way God had intended for us, we must begin to redefine our understanding of failure.  Each time you think of failure, think of the extent of your separation from God’s plan for your life.