Joshua 1:8, “This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou shouldest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.”
Someone has said, “If at first you don’t succeed, you’d better not be skydiving.”
It is obvious from reading Joshua 1:8 that success comes from having God’s Word in you and working through you.
I’ve never heard anyone say that success comes easy. A. W. Tozer said, “It is doubtful that God can use any man greatly until he has been greatly wounded.”
By his mid-thirties, Winston Churchill was by far the most successful politician of his age in Britain. His career had been like a brilliant meteor blazing across the sky. The son of a notorious politician, he had achieved fame as a reporter and author whose chief subject matter was his own military adventures. Elected to Parliament at the tender age of twenty-five, he entered the Cabinet at thirty-one, and at the outbreak of World War I, was Lord of the Admiralty and part of the War Cabinet. Intelligent, hard-working, eloquent, single-minded, ambitious – the world lay at his feet. But Churchill’s world revolved around him as the sun. He was more interested in himself and his own ideas than in anything else, and his peers were reluctant to trust him.
Then in 1915, his world collapsed. A military expedition at Gallipoli for which he was held responsible (critics still debate the validity of the charge) turned into a bloody debacle. He was forced to resign from the Cabinet, and his long years in the political wilderness, with intermittent respites, began. One biography gives this period of his life a fascinating title, “The Rise to Failure.”
In the crucible of failure, Churchill forged some new qualities which became instrumental in his success as the great Allied leader during World War II. But until he refocused his life, he was a brilliant failure. Achievement in itself can never be the mark of excellence or greatness. Success can only be achieved as we live our lives in submission to God’s will and God’s Word.
Quitting is admission of failure so, you see, you can’t quit.
What to do:
✞Don’t quit – be faithful.
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