"Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night." … Zig Ziglar
Zig makes a good point. Tomorrow, there’ll be no point in hanging onto today … it will be time to start anew. The real failure is missing that reality … the real failure is to dwell on the failure, to refuse to learn from the past … even the very recent past, which is in fact just yesterday. Failure is something that does happen, but it does not define us as people.
I think I’ve pointed this out in a past post, but it’s worth my repeating: “Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.” That is a quote that has stayed with me all my life, shared by a coworker twenty years ago. It is one I have shared with others, with my children. Failure is not at all an end … it is a new and more directed beginning.
Think of people watching Jesus on the cross, people that likely thought they had no stake in his situation. They would naturally see Jesus as a failure, a man doomed to die for trying and failing, for failing to have enough people believe in Him and His story. And then came Sunday and a newly opened tomb, discarded burial cloths and a Light that shines for us all. Tomorrow may not be at all like today or yesterday, for any of us.
So … make today all it can be, and leave yesterday behind … today IS the most important moment you can succeed in. Jesus is the way to that success in all things. Think on Him today …
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