‘Better to try and fail, than fail to try!’ - Stuart Sneddon

It's more than OK to make a mistake!

In Matthew 25:14-30 Jesus tells a parable about a master who entrusted three servants with a set amount of money. The first two servants went off, traded and invested what they had been given, making the master a big profit. The third one however "went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money."

When the master find put about this he is furious with the servant and has him cast out. Why? The master got his money back, maybe a bit dirty, but he did get it back. He didn't technically lose anything. The reason he was so mad with the servant was that they didn't even try due to a fear of failure.

It can be like that with us and trying something new, learning to do something or following what God tells us to do. The what it's set in...

What if I get it wrong? What if I look silly? What if I fail?

These what if's can then stop us from moving forward, and make us bury our dreams, our victories and our potentials.

But here is a what if for us. What if we instead say...

So what if I get it wrong! So what if I look silly! So what if I fail!

So why is this important? Well, God wants us to get out there and push ourselves, he want us to try. Joseph Conrad said "If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything." If we can get comfortable putting ourselves out there for God even though we might make a mistake, the sky is the limit to what we could achieve!

Finally when we make mistakes we learn. Thomas Edison supposedly said on making the light bulb "I never once failed in making a light bulb. I just found 99 ways to not make one." This is true from riding a bike to sharing a testimony. I can learn from when I don't quite get it right, to help me get it right next time.