Success After 23 attempts: Press on!!

Welcome top today’s devotional! Let me start by telling you the story of my classmate. He wanted to be a pediatrician (a specialist doctor who treats children). He went on to sit for the post graduate qualifying exams! 22 times he wrote the exams and 22 times he failed! He didn’t want to write the exams anymore but was encouraged by friends to try one more time. He did and passed at the 23^rd attempt. On Saturday, 24^th September, 2011, Barack Obama, elected as the first African-American President, told an audience of 3,000 blacks
in a darkened Washington Convention Center in the wake of rising black unemployment to “put on their marching shoes and follow him in the battle for jobs and opportunities.” He reportedly told the blacks to stop complaining. He said to them: “Shake it off;
stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. Just keep pressing on. The future rewards those who press on.” These are timely words of comfort and wisdom for any discouraged soul. Throwing on the towel (giving in and giving up) won’t get you there.  Most times in life we get things wrong before we eventually get them right. So, getting things wrong, or not being able to make it the first or second time, or even the third time does not mean you won’t make it at all. Don’t look at the obstacles; don’t be like 10 discouraged spies. Don’t you ever say, “l am not able.” Rather, like Joshua and Caleb, say to yourself, “l am well able to overcome it” let the words of the American President ring in your ears and heart: “The future rewards those who press on.” HOLD ON!! Get up and fight/try one more time!! Peace!     

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