If you take a look at history, some of the greatest characters have humbly failed.

We should never strive to fail, but as imperfect fractured beings, we are prone to falling short.

It happens.

Proverbs 2416 says this.

The righteous may fall seven times, but still get up.

David, Jonah, Peter, Paul, Sarah all face some sort of biblical affliction as we see in the stories of their lives covered in the pages of scriptures.

Their actions are not new.

I mean, they were tore up, y'all. Deception, betrayal, denial, persecution, prosecution,

doubt all plagued humanity since the beginning of time. The beauty in the lives of these biblical characters was in the moment of failure and affliction, they became the truest version of themselves.

Note, it is in the face of affliction that we become our truest or most false self.

Ananias, Safira, Saul, Aiken, had the opportunity, as we do now, to maintain truth, integrity, honesty, and amissed failure and affliction.

2 Corinthians 4-9 says this, we are persecuted, but God does not leave us.

We are hurt sometimes, but we are not destroyed.

So be wrong.

It's okay to fail.

You'll be forgiven if you fall, but be honest. Be the truest form of yourself.

It's okay to be broken. It's okay to make mistakes. But it's not okay to lie and hide the truest version of who God has called you to be. Thank you.