We all make mistakes as we go through life and we all learn from those mistakes.
Every time we try something new we run the risk of making yet another mistake, and yet, if we are to be successful, we must run that risk constantly, every day. Every risk we take and every mistake we make builds our knowledge and increases our chances of making the ending glorious.
We know that life was not meant to be easy but God is there to help us. Often our lives appear to be clouded by problems and difficulties, but He is beside us. We lose faith in ourselves, and feel insecure and inadequate, but God has faith in us. It is difficult sometimes to look on the bright side of things, but if we have faith in God then we can see that side. Like Paul, we have thorns in our flesh, and we ask that God gives us the strength to bear and conquer those thorns so that we may come to a glorious ending.
2 Corinthians 12:9-10
His answer was, "My grace is all you need, for my power is greatest when you are weak." I am most happy, then, to be proud of my weaknesses, in order to feel the protection of Christ's power over me. I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
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