| The Secrets of a Beautiful Life |
Chapter 6 |
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Thus all Christian life should be victorious. We should never allow ourselves to be defeated in any experience that may come to us. With Christ to help us, we need never fail, but may ever be more than conquerors. Even the things that seem to be failures and defeats in our lives through the love and grace of Christ — if only we are faithful — will prove in the end to be successes and victories. Many a good man fails in a worldly sense, and yet in the moral and spiritual realm is more than conqueror. There is no real failure but in sin. Faithfulness to Christ is victory, even when all is lost.
“All things fulfil their purpose, low or high:
There is no failure; death can never mar
The lest or greatest of the things that are;
Until our work is done, it matters not how nigh
May be the night time that is never far,
That long ere sunset lights the evening star,
That throws its still shadow up into the sky.
To-day shall end what yesterday begun;
What we are planning others yet may build;
The leaves may wither, but the tree shall grow;
And though, at last, we leave our work undone,
Our life will not the less be all fulfilled;
Our work will all be even finished so,”
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