Failure.

Monday, May 4, 2009. Have you ever experienced to fully fail something? Have you been completely off the track with some particular part of your life? I am thinking of various things, for example you try to get up every morning to learn for some exam, but you just cannot get out of the bed. You are blocked. At some point you manage to get up, but then you do this or that, instead of sitting down at your desk to start to learn.

Other people try to save their marriage. But it just seemes to be impossible. Between love and hatred we might been caught into some kind of prison. We cannot go forward, we cannot go back. There are various responsibilities which limit our freedom of choice. We cannot act, cannot escape, but also cannot save the situation. And the difficulties are fueled again and again by particular habits of ourselves and of our partner.

Someone else might be fighting with alcohol. Every day again we might do the wrong choices. Perhaps we do not have a choice, we are drawn into a spiral of failure again and again, too weak to survive, to weak to do the simple things and drink tea instead of red wine. We need help, but we are too proud to admit this, and thus we seem to be determined to fail completely.

What is the answer of Jesus to all these failures? How does he see us with the mess in our life? He has a different perspective! “Blessed are those who are poor in spirit!” he says, or in another translation: “Blessed are those who do not expect anything from themselves, but everything from God!” God is there to help. God is here to guide and comfort. God's love is there in particular for those who know how much they failed with important things. He is the humble God, the humble savior. His death at the cross is the final judgement for all guilt ever accumulated by humans. At the cross there is a new beginning, there is power to change the past. There is the power for a new future. [R.W.E.P., jesusnetwork.eu]

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