Well it's all over except the crying (if you were pulling for Texas). That's right the National Title game for college football is done and the Alabama Crimson Tide won their first title since 1992...that's a long time to go. They had an undefeated season, had the Heisman Trophy winner, and now are the national champs. It was one heck of a season for them.
I noticed something about Texas in this game though. The Longhorns lost their best player and team leader after only 5 plays. They were forced to play a true freshman quarterback for most of the game. They created an interception and recovered a live ball on a kick off and were only able to get two field goals from those plays. They turned the ball over themselves right before the half and had that returned for a touchdown to make the halftime score 24-6. They were down, and not just on the scoreboard. Yet in the second half, they adapted and they made a push on offense and made it close late in the game. In the end though they were simply overwhelmed and were unable to pull of the come back win. They failed to accomplish what they had hoped to accomplish.
But really that's OK, it happens. We all fail at some point. The key really is to be able to realize that we are going to fail. There are going to be things that we fall short with. As children, as parents, as students, as friends and as followers of Jesus. Regardless of what we do, we will, at some point, fail. And God knows that.
The great thing is that despite the fact that He knows we are going to fail, He's still pulling for us. In fact there are times that it is our failure that bring Him glory. In 2 Corinthians 12:9 Paul gives us a little bit of insight into his own life. It's not much, but it's enough. He tells the people of the church that he has a "thorn in his side" a problem of some sort, something that he is failing at basically. On top of that, he has asked God to remove this failure from his life multiple times. He is tired of failing at this thing, whatever it is. And yet, Jesus tells him that his "grace is enough, and his power is made perfect in his weakness."
So let's look at this just really briefly. First, Paul knows that he is failing at something, so he goes to God with it. Multiple times he asks God to take away from him what it is that he is failing at. So pretty much Paul seems to think that is he can stop failing, things will be better for him, he can do more for God's kingdom. And what does God do? he flat out tells him no. Jesus tells Paul that he is NOT going to remove where he is failing. The reason that he gives is that his Grace is more than enough. He is telling Paul that it is not about him and what he can do, but rather about Jesus and what his Grace is able to do for him.
In the end, when we fail, as we all will, God reminds us that there is grace both for the failure and in the failure, and that He can even use our failure for his own glory. Remember that when you are failing at something in life. No matter what it is that you feel you are failing at, God's grace more than covers it. Peace and Love y'all.
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