Rising Above Failure

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 9, 1908

Rising Above Failure

A FAILURE is a stone. It falls upon us and crushes us, or we rise on it, and thus become the higher. Peter denied his Lord in his hour of greatest grief and humiliation. What an awful failure for one to make who had been so favored as had Peter! But he took a wise course regarding it. He truly repented and gave himself anew to his Saviour. With blinding tears he sought the garden where his Lord had so greatly suffered but a few hours before. This failure might have crushed Peter. Judas's failure crushed him. But Peter chose the wise course. He left the garden a humbled and changed man. There had come into his life a marvelous power. Thousands were converted by his preaching. So are we to deal with every mistake. Be strong and of good courage.