another thing that noah did after he came out of the ark was he got drunk. that’s not how it’s supposed to end! he gets drunk.
genesis 9:20-24 (msg), noah, a farmer, was the first to plant a vineyard. he drank from its wine, got drunk and passed out, naked in his tent. ham, the father of canaan, saw that his father was naked and told his two brothers who were outside the tent. shem and japheth took a cloak, held it between them from their shoulders, walked backward and covered their father's nakedness, keeping their faces turned away so they did not see their father's exposed body. when noah woke up with his hangover, he learned what his youngest son had done. he said, “cursed be canaan! a slave of slaves, a slave to his brothers!”
this is like rocky getting knocked out in the last round! like forrest gump leaving his friend in the jungles in vietnam! like john wayne waving the white flag! but this is real life. it’s not hollywood.
that’s one of the things i like about the bible. it tells us the real truth about GOD’s people. no punches pulled. and when i see this real truth, i know that GOD’s not lying to me about people’s lives. HE’s not painting fairy tales. here’s a man of incredible faith who made an incredible difference and also made an incredible mistake. any of you like that?
just a thought from the front porch…
Showing posts with label failure. mistakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label failure. mistakes. Show all posts
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
success and mistakes…
proverbs 28:13 (lb), a man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful. there are two key words there, mistakes and successful. and they go together. there is no success without making mistakes.
mistakes are how you grow, how you experiment, how you figure out what works.
one pastor tells his staff that he wants every staff member making a major mistake each week. why? if they’re not making any mistakes, they’re not growing. they’re not pushing the envelope. they’re not taking risks. and if they’re not taking risks, it doesn’t require any faith. and if they don’t have any faith, they are being unfaithful.
we only grow by experimenting. and when you experiment, you’re going to make mistakes. so i want everybody to make a major mistake every week. don’t make the same one every week. if you do that, there is a real problem. if you’re making the same mistake every week, you’re not learning, you’re not growing, you’re not taking notes. GOD’s having to teach you something over and over. the point is, if you don’t take any risks you never grow.
the freedom to fail is the freedom to grow. this has profound implications for parenting. if you provide such a safety net for your little child that he or she never has an opportunity to fail, never in a competitive environment, when you play them games you always let them win and they never fail, guess what? you’re doing them a dis-service. you’re setting them up for greater pain. that’s not the way the real world operates.
the way the real world operates is sometimes you win and sometimes i win. nobody wins all the time. nobody. if you set up an environment where you protect your little darling where they never have any difficulty and they never have any bad feelings, they never fail and they never lose to somebody else, it’s an unrealistic bubble you’ve put them in. and when they get out in the real world, they’re going to collapse.
just a thought from the front porch…
mistakes are how you grow, how you experiment, how you figure out what works.
one pastor tells his staff that he wants every staff member making a major mistake each week. why? if they’re not making any mistakes, they’re not growing. they’re not pushing the envelope. they’re not taking risks. and if they’re not taking risks, it doesn’t require any faith. and if they don’t have any faith, they are being unfaithful.
we only grow by experimenting. and when you experiment, you’re going to make mistakes. so i want everybody to make a major mistake every week. don’t make the same one every week. if you do that, there is a real problem. if you’re making the same mistake every week, you’re not learning, you’re not growing, you’re not taking notes. GOD’s having to teach you something over and over. the point is, if you don’t take any risks you never grow.
the freedom to fail is the freedom to grow. this has profound implications for parenting. if you provide such a safety net for your little child that he or she never has an opportunity to fail, never in a competitive environment, when you play them games you always let them win and they never fail, guess what? you’re doing them a dis-service. you’re setting them up for greater pain. that’s not the way the real world operates.
the way the real world operates is sometimes you win and sometimes i win. nobody wins all the time. nobody. if you set up an environment where you protect your little darling where they never have any difficulty and they never have any bad feelings, they never fail and they never lose to somebody else, it’s an unrealistic bubble you’ve put them in. and when they get out in the real world, they’re going to collapse.
just a thought from the front porch…
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