Voices of Failure

I waited patiently the LORD to help me,

and he turned to me and heard my cry.

He lofted me out of the pit of despair,

out of the mud and the mire.

He set may feet on solid ground

and steadied me as I walked along,

a hymn of praise to our God.

Psalm 40:1~3

David was a moral failure, yet God used him. Elijah was an emotional train wreck after Mount

Carmel, but God bless him. Jonah was in the belly of a fish when he prayed his most honest prayer, and God heard it.

      Perfect people? No. Perfect messes? You bet. Yet God used them. A surprising and welcome discovery of the Bible: God uses failures.

Max Lucado の 「God with You Every Day」より

Max は、「神さまは、失敗を用いる」と言います。

悪いことが起こっても、それが神さまのご計画なんて、思わない方がいい。

いろんなことが、複雑にからみあって、そういうわけなんだけど、でも、神さまはどんな時も、どんな中でも、ただひとつの方向に私を導こうとしていると思う。

それは、まるで方位磁石のように。