Bless the Lord, O my soul,
and do not forget all his benefits… Psalm 103:2.

God sees ‘success’ and ‘failure’ more in terms of relationships than of achievements, more in ‘being’ than in ‘doing’… Noah got drunk, Moses got angry and Gideon became scared. Peter could be inconsistent, Paul inconsiderate; Thomas doubted, Martha pouted. But God continued to love them and turned their failures into victories.

A friend of mine wrote: ‘Success isn’t the absence of failure. It is having the determination to never quit because “quitters never win and winners never quit”. Almost every person who has achieved anything worthwhile with his or her life has not only experienced failure, but experienced it many times…

God wants you to achieve something worthwhile – not necessarily spectacular…

If you feel you have failed, be encouraged. Now’s the time to give God a chance. “He’ll mend even a broken heart if you’ll give him all the pieces.”‘

‘For those who believe in God, failure is never forever.’ Thank you, Lord. Amen.

Rowland Croucher <
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