How to be a Failure - Part 1: Do as You Please

Failure and frustration are most easily achieved by two habits: doing exactly as you please and blaming everyone else for the results. When people insist on living for their own desires while demanding responsibility and obedience from others, they quickly undermine their homes, work, and relationships. This failure is accelerated when responsibility is shifted to parents, spouses, employers, society, or circumstances, because self-examination and repentance are carefully avoided. Scripture teaches that the true purpose of life is not self-pleasing but pleasing God, and that peace and joy come only through self-denial and honest confession of sin. When a person takes responsibility before God, stops excusing himself, and seeks to glorify the Lord rather than himself, frustration gives way to peace, because God does not fail and those who live under His rule are preserved by Him in every aspect of life.