UCB Word For Today Devotional 7 May 2024: Moving from failure to success (2)

UNITED CHRISTIAN BROADCASTERS 7TH MAY 2024 UCB WORD FOR TODAY DEVOTIONAL

Read and Meditate on Today’s UCB Word For Today’s Devotional was written to bless and inspire you. God bless you as you study!

TODAY’S TOPIC: MOVING FROM FAILURE TO SUCCESS (2)

Scripture: ‘Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.’
Job 8:7 NKJV

UCB Word For Today Devotional 7 May 2024 Message

It’s easier to recognise success looking back than it is looking forward. For some of us, it can be many years before we recognise our success, celebrate it, and feel secure in it. That’s because we lack a proper perspective. At its widest point, the Mississippi River requires a two-mile-wide steel span bridge to get across; while at its source, the stream is so small you can jump over it. But it’s still the same river. Most things start small!

Have you ever heard the Serenity Prayer? It goes like this: ‘God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.’ It was first prayed in a little church in Massachusetts by theologian Reinhold Niebuhr during a Sunday morning service. Only a small group of people was in the congregation that day, but one person liked the prayer and, after the service, he asked Niebuhr for a copy. ‘Here,’ Niebuhr responded, handing over a crumpled piece of paper. ‘I doubt I’ll ever have any more use for it.’ Well, guess what? Next to the Lord’s Prayer, it’s the most used prayer in the world. Isn’t it ironic that Niebuhr’s prayer became so popular? Evidently, his perspective wasn’t too good because he didn’t know what he had.

With that story in mind, read this Scripture again and really think about it: ‘Though your beginning was small, yet your latter end would increase abundantly.’ With God’s help, you can turn your failure into success and go on to greater things.

Bible Reading: 2 Samuel 3-5, John 17

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