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Have you experienced a great failure of some sort (e.g., job or career loss; divorce; emotional breakdown; financial ruin, etc.)? How did dealing with such a failure affect your spiritual life?
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When a close family member betrayed me in the vilest way, the loss of trust and relationship helped me to draw closer to God. The incident taught me that God is faithful and can work out any situation for good. I trust Him more than ever now and work toward building a closer relationship with Him through Jesus.
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A great failure I experienced in my life was a choice to pursue a romantic relationship because I was tired of waiting on God. This negatively affected my spiritual life and took my a long long time to get back on track. Although, I never stopped believing I had a relationship with the Lord, it kept being “interrupted” by my flesh, by my shame, by my guilt of wasted time, emotion, etc. I constantly felt like I was at the caboose of the train. Saying that I know God loves me and can forgive me, but why would He. I wouldn’t.
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Failures? Or is it God’s timely arrangement to turn me towards Him.
I have given myself space to fail – hard on my ego, but with God’s grace – every mess has a message. Simply hook on to Him in times where the failures draw me back to Himself.