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Show A GRADUATION WISH "Why art thou cast down, 0 my soul? And why art thou disquieted in me? Hope thou in God: F or I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance." (Psalm 42: 5) The air has been filled with expectation for the past People have gathered in excitement and few weeks. some cases from around the world to accomplishments with one another. It is graduation time! At one commencement exercise, the keynote speaker was the president of a large, profitable corporation. He was share the chosen for the occasion because of his reputation and success and most think because of his money. He 1 was introduced and stood up to speak to the shock and surprise of even the host with the words that came out of his mouth. He told the students sitting in front of wearing their caps and gowns, "If I could have one hope for you as you go him out into the world, it would be this: I hope you fail! I hope you fail big! I hope you fail at something that your really want, something that is important to you." Then, while the initial shock still setting in, he went on to explain, "My early life has been one failure after another, until I learned to see failure as . an effective teacher." Many born in of the seasons psalms of Israel were of failure. The children of Israel learned lesson after another one 2 in times of failure. Listen to the text as psalmist cry out in despair and desperation, As a deer pants for the water brooks, so pants my soul for You. 0 God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. Psalm 42: 1-2) For him the journey had not always been easy. I t had been uphill and had bumps along the way. Some places have had obstacles too wide to go around and too high to go the " over. He failed. Psalm 51 reveals the same effect. For adultery, schemed to a man killed, and lost the David committed it up, had of his salvation. He failed but out of cover joy that failure discovered forgiveness, renewal, hope, and another chance to go places he had never gone before. He graduated from the school of hard knocks 3 with a degree after another. in experience, one failure disciples of Jesus went out but failed to do anything with the boy in convulsions. They came back frustrated and disappointed. Jesus explained to them that this work could be done only through prayer. (Mark 9: 26-29) Can I remind you that it' s alright to fail, just don't wallow in your failure. It' s alright to fall down but get back up again. It's alright to mess up but "fess" up and straighten out and fly right. Maturity is built with the bricks and mortar of "try and try again." Success The when you fail and learn from your failures. Victory is possible when you comes reach out from exhaustion in the failures of your own strength. 4 The only way to discover the high ground of life is to mix the foundations of failure with trust so that your life rests on the pillars of love, peace, wisdom, and guidance from God. Y ou learn to go forward when you ar 4-a. (Ll.>+ 1;1 Vot<-circumstances. AJ. trapped by ¥/ j;PU51 It was in the wilderness for 40 years that the children of Israel learned how to t!rW God and occupy the promised land. It was from the Garden of lean on Gethsemane that Jesus on won the the mountain of Calvary. It victory was out of the grave on Sunday morning that He arose from the lowly place with all power in His hands. :;; "'" e/' ?r ----:J:;t.. ,J o{vv/ed; k1'j/; -f...v / je. j,v._-f bfbc-aW<L kJv' r: <§ 5 <A dr.,AlJd |
