mighty coming up, a most glorious resurrection of God into visibility through you in His own chosen way, right here and now The failure, for the time, would only mean a grand, glorious success a little later on.

Do not fear failure, but call failure good, for it really is. Did not Jesus stand as an utter failure, to all appearances, when he stood dumb before Pilate, all his cherished principles come to naught, unable (yes, I say it, unable or else not tempted in all points as we are) to deliver himself, or to "demonstrate" over the agonizing circumstances of his position? 1

But had he not "failed" right at that point, there never would have been the infinitely grander demonstration of the Resurrection a little later on. "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit" (Jn. 12:24). If you have dung to one spiritual gift because you were taught that, and you begin to fail, believe me, it is only the seeming death, the seeming disappearance, of one gift, in order that out of it may spring many new gifts --- brighter, higher, fuller ones, because they are the ones that God has chosen for you.

Your greatest work will be done in your own

1. Unable in the sense of being unable to go against God's will. Our personal demonstrations must always be in harmony with and not in resistance to the will of God.