I spotted an A.W. Tozer book on my Amazon Kindle book deal recommendations. It was 99cents. I immediately bought it and started to read. Barely into the book, I came upon a passage which caught my attention.
Tozer wrote: “When God spoke to me about Chicago and I responded in the affirmative, He fulfilled His covenant with me in spite of my personal failures. I will be the first to acknowledge that I have had many failures. You cannot live very long and not accumulate them.” [A Cloud by Day, A Fire by Night]
And that was in chapter one. I cannot imagine what the remainder of the book holds.
Failures. I know what Tozer was talking about. I’ve lived 77 years and I have accumulated many failures. Without Christ, the burden of my failures and regrets would be overwhelming. But Tozer’s next sentence says it all …
“But in His graciousness, God uses us, failures and all, in such a way that He receives glory.”
I am so thankful for God’s grace, given willingly, given freely, given lavishly to His children. I am so thankful that God still can use us, “failures and all, in such a way that He receives glory.” Amen