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Posted by barrykind (Member # 35) on :

E V E R Y D A Y L I G H T
by Selwyn Hughes

"Let us fix our eyes on Jesus ... who for the joy set before him
endured the cross ..." (v. 2) [Cross]

-- For reading & meditation: Hebrews 12:1-13 Another principle in coping
with failure is this: If the thing in which you failed is clearly the
right thing for you to do, then dedicate your energies to God, try
again, and don't give up.

A father, trying to encourage his teenage son after he had failed an
examination, said, "Don't give up, try again." "What's the use?" said
the son. "It's easier to quit." His father remonstrated with
him, saying, "The people who are remembered in life are the people who,
when they failed, didn't give up, but tried again."

He went on, "Remember Churchill? Remember Thomas Edison? They
didn't give up!" The boy nodded. His father went on, "Remember John
McCringle?" "Who is John McCringle?" the boy asked. "You see," said
the father, "you don't remember him - he gave up." A poster showed a
picture of a man sitting on a park bench looking depressed and
disconsolate. His arms were folded across his chest, and there was a
look of resignation on his face. The caption read, "I give up." When
I first saw this poster, I looked at it for a few moments and turned
away, but then my eye was attracted to something in the right-hand
corner of the poster. It was a picture of a black hill and on it a
very tiny cross. These words, barely perceptible, were printed beneath
it: "I didn't."

Feel like giving up at this moment? Then lift your eyes to the
cross. The one who triumphed over all obstacles holds out His hands
toward you. Take His hand, and in His strength and power - try again.

PRAYER:
O God, help me to link my littleness to Your greatness, my
faintheartedness to Your boldness, my fear to Your faith. Then
nothing can stop me. Amen.

Posted by njclary (Member # 4) on :

What a wonderful message; Over my many years, how I wanted to give up, but I could'nt.It was'nt in me to quit. In my early years[17 to 21] I had a very serious drinking problem and a self image problem. I had been saved some years before, but life has many pitfalls, and I fell in one. God was ever faithful to me, and in my despair, He came to me, and lifted me out of a doorway I had been sleeping in, in a northern city. He showed me the two alternatives I had. One was to quit and die, the other was to pick myself up, and begin to find a future.

I took the latter. I took hold of life and carved a future for myself[by God's Grace] and made myself into an Architect, with out the benefit of college, and now have my own business, since 1985. The road has been frought with potholes and treelimbs, but I press on.

There is a Christian song that I have grown to love called 'In Jesus Name, we'll press on'
what a profound verse.

God Bless

Joel

Posted by barrykind (Member # 35) on :

Some one needed this article.. [Smile]

God Bless