GOD DIDN'T FAIL YOU; THE SYSTEM DID. HOW TRUE IS THIS STATEMENT?
The article argues that the statement “God didn’t fail you; the system did” is entirely true. It emphasizes that God, being sovereign and all-powerful, cannot fail or lie, citing scriptures like Jeremiah 29:11 and Numbers 23:19. God’s plans are always for good, and when things don’t go as expected, it’s either due to human error or because God has a different plan. A real-life testimony illustrates this: a young woman, divinely inspired to pursue law, scored above the cut-off but was denied admission due to corruption, favoritism, and quota systems. She refused unethical shortcuts (bribes, political favors) and sought God’s guidance. God led her to another course, with a plan to study law later, reaffirming His faithfulness while exposing the system’s failure. The article stresses that blaming God for failures is unfair since human free will and man-made systems—governments, institutions, societal structures—cause most injustices. Corruption, nepotism, and bias are results of “man’s inhumanity to man,” not divine failure. Conclusion: Human systems fail due to selfishness and corruption, but God remains faithful and faultless.
Glory Nnenna Simeon 
GOD DIDN’T FAIL YOU; THE SYSTEM DID. HOW TRUE IS THIS STATEMENT?
Absolutely true, God does not know what it means to fail. Neither is it in him to fail. He is a sovereign God, therefore, all power, all strengths, all skills are embedded in him so he does not fail in all he does.
Secondly, God has a plan of welfare and hope for us not to fail according to his word in Jer 29:11, Iknow the thought I think towards you, the thought of good and not of evil to give you a future and a hope. And I have grown to know God as never a liar according to his word in Numbers 23:19 and I quote, "God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”. Our God is never an author of confusion whenever he says a thing he will empower it to deliver.
To further buttress these facts, He went ahead to promise those who have put their trust in him and His Word that they will never be put to shame. If things go awry or don’t turn out as we had hoped, we have to trust that either we missed the mark in some ways or God has a different plan.
As a matter of urgency, I will be citing the life experience testimony of a young vibrant girl that God gave a vision of becoming a Chief Judge but “instructed her that he would not have her go the way others had been going. Even before this young girl planned to sit for UTME. He made it clear that her journey would not follow the usual path. So, even before she wrote her UTME exam, she had begun receiving some divine inspirations that involved legal terms. This was so profound that she was advised to get a legal book, and she did, starting with a legal dictionary.
Continuously, she wrote her UTME and post UTME “examinations”, came out with “excellent scores” which exceeded the Law departmental cut off mark;, of course she felt relaxed, believing that her name will appear on the merit list, only to be shocked with the contrary.
At this moment, when the first list came out she checked and find out that her name was not there, so she decided to go find out the issue on her way going she fell on a trance: ; She saw an Angel in the form of her elder brother; he went and brought the comprehensive admission list…”with ”He showed her the law department’s admission list, saying it was full yet filled with unqualified students chosen for political reasons. She cried out, begging him to make space and add her name, before she came back to her senses. Albeit, getting to the school the head of admission in the law department first stopped her phone before any discussion was made, such as; you can't be given law even though you are qualified, we have a quotation system and we have taken the number of people we needed for law from your L G A. This is a professional course many politicians are interested in, except if you have a political god father or mother, or you pay conceptional fee, in the absence of this you can choose any other courses from the university, without paying supplementary form.
Despite everything, she took her stance on rejecting all these options because they were against her values. Even her siblings’ offer to pay the conceptional fee was blocked because to her, her divine assignment was to fight corruption, and she could not begin that journey through what she was to fight against.
Next, they approached a commissioner for women affairs, a respected figure from their town and church. The commissioner accepted her credentials but later claimed she couldn’t help, given the circumstances. Instead, she suggested the girl venture into business, offering to sponsor it, but this lady firmly declined the offer. The more time went by, the higher the pressure from her siblings. They urged her to accept one of the admission options the school had offered, but she blocked such conversations.
“In all these, she objected to all options. Firstly, her siblings were willing to pay the conceptional fee. Despite everything she took her stance on rejecting all these options because they were against her…”
At this juncture she went to God in prayer to ask for the next option, which she was rightly guided on a particular course and was equally instructed that with the course she will go into law as second degree so that no other person that studies law directly will see her back when she gets there.
On this note she accepted seeing that her God is too faithful to fail, and so God does not fail her rather the system failed her.
On the other hand, using the term God has failed me is a cowardly attempt to shift blames or responsibilities from ourselves. Do we really understand what it means when we say that?. An immortal, who made our very existence and never failed in his promise as everything he set out to give man he did, Genesis 2:26, He gave us dominion . So are you calling him a liar?. Man has freewill, an ability to decide and make his own path. This path is however, influenced by the system or society. By system, I mean ourselves because the system consists of men like us; so our decisions do not only affect us but disrupt those around us. The structure we live by is designed by us here on earth, not God. From the government setting, to choice of work, education, and even violence are man–made. So why should God be blamed for our own short–comings.
A man who doesn't get a job because another person with lesser qualifications was favoured cannot say he was failed by God. The biased system we practice did. A lecturer who deliberately failed a student acted on his own will and power. God played no part in it. It was solely the choice of the lecturer to abuse power. Another instance is our government.
Our choice and theirs put them there, together with God as He was the one that instituted everyone in authority too but what they do with the power is solely their choice. So the corruption, bribery, non challant attitude and failure has nothing to do with God. The suffering or effect of this has nothing to do with God either, it is only a consequence of action. The examples above are what the Scottish writer Robert Burns called "man's inhumanity to man” in his infamous poem. The failing system was designed and is being operated by man, so why should God be blamed for its failure.
The system of the world failed us. The government, families, work, and society at large failed us. But the failed bodies or structure are the handiworks of fellow men, so mankind failed on its own including self but our God can never fail.
