The Real Reason You Fail

"I'm not superstitious...but I am a little stitious." -Michael Scott

1989:  the year we learned that winning at basketball had nothing to do with attitude or ability. We just needed the right shoes.

More recently, NBA great Lebron James has been making headlines with a headband. He stopped wearing it a few weeks ago to look more like his teammates. But after a tough playoff loss, the headband came back as if it were the reason he had been winning all along.

So what is the real reason you fail? While we may blame a number of factors, the truth is it always comes back to what's rattling around in our own hearts and minds.

"...put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator." Colossians 3:10

It's not time to put on the right shoes, or the right headgear, but instead the right self. Don't fall back to the old self, the self that:

• blames others
• looks at the outward
• thinks you're alone

Instead put on the new self! Remember that you have been created in Christ Jesus for good works. So stop blaming outside factors for inside failures. You don't need different shoes. You need to look inward, pray for renewal, and put on the new self Jesus saved you to be.