Psalm 89:33 Nevertheless my lovingkindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

Ever suffer failure in your life? We talk about successes don’t we? Every tail spoken about failure always seems to end up about being an overcomer. No one likes to speak about failure because it is negative. Failure drags you down. Failure makes you feel less. It creates false identity, it labels you loser.

We have at this time a nation which has lost its identity. I am not talking politics and policies, I am talking identity. It is a subtle thing. We will always have a voice saying what we are but that voice is not our identity. Authentic identity cannot be found in what we do as a nation either. Identity is found in Christ.

Philippians 3:9 And be found in him(Christ), not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

If we as Christians have failed at anything, then we must look to who we are in Christ and act according to that standard of lovingkindness. If we will do that, then success and failure is erased from the results and will have no effect on identity.

1 Corinthians 13:8a Love never fails.

In this section of 1 Corinthians 13 the issue of failure of the power gifts and the service gifts is foretold but love does not fail because love is not a gift. Love abides. Love is our identity. Love is who we are.

John 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.