Out of Our Failures

One thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead. —Philippians 3:13

A sense of personal failure keeps many older women from embracing mentoring relationships. However, none of us measures up to what we long to be. And you shouldn’t let it stop you.

Teach out of your failures. Use them to point others to the amazing grace of God and to a Savior who came to redeem sinners. Open the Word, open your heart, share the hard questions you’ve wrestled with, and watch God create beauty from ashes.

Let’s admit it: the sharing of relationship between older and younger women would be neither effective nor needful if each of us—if any of us—had it all together. If we’re going to invest ourselves in others or receive the wisdom offered to us by others, some of the most significant encounters will occur within the context of human weakness and inadequacy. Yes, even failure and sin. Because even while we’re still in the process of being changed into the image of Christ, He can use us as a means of grace in others’ lives.

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Adorned: Living Out the Beauty of the Gospel Together

©2017 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Scripture taken from The CSB