Never give up

Failure doesn't mean we won't succeed; it just means success may take a bit longer to achieve. John Wayne spoke a great line in the movie The Train Robbers: 'You're going to spend the rest of your life getting up one more time than you're knocked down, so you'd better start getting used to it.' That's what success is - getting up one time more than we were knocked down. We have no idea how close we may be to what we want to achieve. But if we give up, we'll never know - plus, we'll never actually get there. Author Ben Stein said, 'The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated. It is finished when it surrenders.'

Time magazine conducted a survey among people who had lost their jobs. The survey showed that people who had lost jobs and found new ones were better prepared to deal with adversity than those who had been with the same company for years without ever needing to face and deal with unemployment.

When we've experienced failure, we're actually in a better position to achieve success than people who haven't. When we fail and fail again - and keep bouncing back and learning from our failures - we're building character, strength, tenacity, experience and wisdom. And people who develop these qualities are capable of sustaining their successes, unlike those who gained good things too early or too easily.



So what now? As long as you don't give up, you're in a good position. So today, remember - 'Stand firm. Let nothing move you' (1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV).





— SCRIPTURE —

'Stand firm. Let nothing move you.' 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
— SOULFOOD —

Jer 4-6, Mark 15:1-20, Ps 144:9-15, Pro 14:5-8