Inspiring words

Didn't work, it's ok

Not everyone ends up keeping the same major, or staying at the same college, or knowing exactly where they should be working and staying their for 40 years. Some do, but some don’t, and neither option makes you a failure. God is going to continue to pour His new mercies all over your life either way.
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See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. - 43:19
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As we see with the children of Israel, God has always been about doing new things in the lives of His children. He is well aware of the wastelands that we find ourselves in…even the wastelands of our minds. Even the wastelands that convince us that we are somehow failures if:
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-We change our major in college
-We go to college not even knowing what we want to major in
-We transfer to different schools
-We start one program and switch to another
-We take an internship or a job that ends up not being what we expected
-We take a different career path
-We end up taking longer on a project or venture than we were expecting
-We end up not having the funding or the resources we needed for something that we told everyone we were going to
-We end up having no desire to continue something that we originally thought was going to be our passion project
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With all things in life considered, it may seem that these issues aren’t great, but we have to deal with these thoughts. Any seed of feeling like a failure can still grow; breeding a lack of self worth that we did not see coming. Even these things can cause us to become so anxious or discouraged that we lose sight of The Lord and the work that He is doing in your lives.
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Let nothing take you away from Him. Not even the slightest hint of “I am a failure because ____________.” We have all made mistakes and we have all sinned against God, but in Jesus’ Name, no matter how big or small, we are still set free. We are still allowed to move forward and be excited about what God is today, even if yesterday didn’t quite turn out as planned.
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Written by Morgan Harper-Nichols for #TheDevoCo