My favorite business professor once said, "The reason I'm successful is because I got back up when I got knocked on my butt." As Christians, we can't let a failure haunt us—it should not define us, but rather inform us of areas we need to work on.

Peter denied even knowing Jesus three times while Jesus was being crucified. Jesus had predicted it, and Peter had denied it, yet when the rooster crowed , Peter realized what he had done and wept bitterly. The ANGUISH of failure is intense!  But it CAN'T haunt us an ruin us. 

In Acts 2, we see Peter giving the first sermon after Jesus’s ascension into heaven–to a crowd of thousands of people when he had previously denied Jesus in front of just a few days earlier. Christians mustn't become discouraged when they fail. They shouldn't wallow in self-pity and give up due to the mishap. Instead, they should pick themselves back up and continue on. As leaders in Christ, for Christ, we will do better next time.