Devotional
Thursday
Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto
those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize
of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13, 14.
YET I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of
heart or hope; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
J. MILTON.
IT is not by regretting what is irreparable that true work is to be
done, but by making the best of what we are. It is not by
complaining that we have not the right tools, but by using well the
tools we have. What we are, and where we are, is God's providential
arrangement,—God's doing, though it may be man's misdoing; and the
manly and the wise way is to look your disadvantages in the face,
and see what can be made out of them. Life, like war, is a series of
mistakes, and he is not the best Christian nor the best general who
makes the fewest false steps. He is the best who wins the most
splendid victories by the retrieval of mistakes. Forget mistakes;
organize victory out of mistakes.
F. W. ROBERTSON.