How To Avoid Being A Failure

Walter Cummins

How To Avoid Being A Failure The simplicity of the Word of God, the Bible, is astounding. Most of us have too much complicated theology and not enough simple believing. We are encased in so many negatives that even the positives are shrouded in darkness. We make God too difficult. Nobody wants to be a failure. God wants no failures—then, why be one? You don’t have to be, if you don’t want to. This is the exact meaning of this study. Remember the story of the woman who lost one of the ten pieces of silver. Diligently she searched until she found it. After she came upon it, she called in all the neighbors and had a celebration because having lost a little piece of silver worth a few cents in United States currency, she finally found it. All the neighbors rejoiced with her. Can you imagine a little town in your section of the country getting excited over a few cents—let alone all the neighbors becoming so animated about it! How did this woman avoid being a failure? Luke 15:8-10: Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost. Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth. There are three interesting stories in the fifteenth chapter of Luke and all three deal with the same major subject. The first pertains to a shepherd having one hundred sheep, only ninety-nine of which were safe and sound. The third story is the one most people have erroneously called, “The Story of the Prodigal Son,” more appropriately, “The Story of the Forgiving Father.” The second is a story of a woman who avoided being a failure because she found one little piece of silver. You may laugh but it is true—her husband would have put her out of the house had she not found the lost piece of