Echols: The true secret of success over failure

When we learn how to live life in its fullest, we learn the true secret of success over failure. After we have received Christ and been saved, the first and greatest lesson of life is for us to know personally.

“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” — Galatians 2:20. Our life is not our own to live, but Christ in us. The following article by John Ruskin (1819-1900) clearly teaches us this with great thought, depth and encouragement.

“There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the theme. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts, and makes a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives; and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of the Creator. How does the musician read the rest? See him beat the time with unvarying count and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between.