Overcoming

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OvercomingMoses ability to overcome problems, setbacks, and disappointments, these facts appeared.Twice General McArthur was refused admission to West Point Military Academy. The third time he was accepted and marched into the history books.Rudyard Kipling received a rejection slip saying, “Sorry, Mr Kipling, but you just do not know how to use the English language.After a lifetime of defeats, at 66, Winston Churchill became one of Britain’s greatest Prime Ministers.Enrico Caruso’s music teacher told him he had no voice at all and could not sing.Einstein’s schoolteachers described him as mentally slow, unsociable, and adrift in his foolish dreams.Life is about overcoming. You conquer one mountain and before you know it you are faced with the next, and often it is a bigger one.In each of the seven letters which the risen and reigning Jesus sent to the churches, He underlines the necessity of overcoming.Peter denied knowing Jesus on the night Christ was betrayed, arrested and put on trial.Paul caused many believers in Jesus a great deal of suffering and sought to eradicate any trace of the church from the face of the earth, before becoming one of the most powerful and effective missionaries we have ever seen.He never forgot just how bad he had been, and he used that appalling episode in his life to speak of how God can take a man and transform him.Past failures need not prevent a man from becoming a useful tool in hands of God.Sometimes our best efforts are so fruitless and futile, and then Jesus Christ comes along.Many men of God have been raised up following periods of rebellion, weakness, and personal disaster.It is called, overcoming.