by Charles R. Swindoll
My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:26
One of the hardest things for you and me to do is own up to
our own failures.
Whether we're talking to our spouses, our kids, our
employers, or with our Lord Himself, it goes against the grain to come clean
and admit our offenses. The knee-jerk response every time is to employ defense
mechanisms: to deny, to excuse, to rationalize, to reinterpret our shortfalls.
The best and healthiest course is to 'fess up. To call
failure, "failure." To name sin for what it is. To admit we were
wrong, and having declared it, to learn what God may have to teach us from the
experience.
Sir Winston Churchill . . . offered the best definition of
success I've ever read: "Success is moving from one failure to another
with no loss of enthusiasm." . . .
As you begin to interpret failure correctly, you will take
your first giant step toward maturity.
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