Success and Failure

Last week, I went out and shot baskets at the court down the street from my office. While I was shooting, I started thinking about why I enjoy sports.

One of the things that I realized was that in sport successes and failures were constant in every play or in my case every shot. If I shot and made it, I felt successful and if I shot and missed I felt like I failed. While this is a simple idea and realization, I feel like in life we don't have a lot of opportunities to fail and learn from those failures as in sport. As a bookkeeper I really can't fail, if I do, it immediately looks bad on the organization that I work for. I can't make mistakes and have the opportunity to learn from them. But in basketball, if a shot is long or short, I have the opportunity to go back to that spot that I shot from and adjust.

While following Christ, we are only "successful" when we realized our sins/failures and confess them to Christ and ask for Him to forgive us . Due to the fact that our sin keeps us from God the only way that we can be close to Him, in a relationship, is to live a life of repentance. When we confess and pursue God that is when our shot goes in.