Failure That Can Not Defeat
FAILURE is a sickening thing, but we have no right to let it be a signal for giving up. The man who fails because of his failures, has surrendered in a fight that God meant to have him win. “There is no man who has won a perfect victory,” says Speer. “Men are not divided into two classes — the men who fail and the men who succeed. Every man is in the failing class. Men are simply divided into different groups according to the attitude they take toward their failures.” The men who fail and conquer are they who refuse to let their failures speak the last word. The men who fail and go to pieces are they who think that failure can not be overcome. God is close to the man who has just failed. If ever Christ offers His human-divine sympathy, and fellowship, and forgiveness, and power to try again, it is at the moment when one has seemingly lost everything in defeat by sin. Then comes the real test of Christ’s power over sin, and the real test of the conquered sinner’s still confident faith in Christ. A lifetime of failures is not enough to get the better of one who still rises to his feet in the determination to keep on fighting. Such a fight can never meet with final defeat.—S. S. Times.