Soul Snack 8/166 ... Infallible Fidelity
A failed (but well intentioned) epitaph on a gravestone in Woolwich Cemetry, London read:
Sacred to the memory of:
MAJOR JAMES BRUSH
who was killed by the
accidental discharge
of a pistol by
his orderly
14th April 1831
Well done good and faithful servant.
MAJOR JAMES BRUSH
who was killed by the
accidental discharge
of a pistol by
his orderly
14th April 1831
Well done good and faithful servant.
More recently and far more seriously Bill Clinton failed. Richard Nixon failed. Mike Tyson failed, and I still fail.
No one is immune from failure. The grand and the humble, the famous and the infamous, the noble and the notorious all fail. Celebrities, politicians and stars are all equally subject to the fragility, the deceits and the desires of human life. The Romans (like so many people still across the world) didn't recognise this. They made their leaders into their gods. This still happens today. We still make gods of those who fail.
..The LORD within her (Jerusalem) is righteous;
he does no wrong.
Morning by morning he dispenses his justice,
and every new day he does not fail... Zeph 3:5
But there is a real God devoted to righteousness, not selfishness.
Righteousness is His agenda. It is His measuring tool for correct judgement.
He holds no agenda of anti-discrimination if it clashes with His righteousness.
He holds no plan of tolerance if it replaces His perfection.
Ho holds no course of approval if it removes correct behaviour.
Really, He can't fail because He never considers the very things that would admit entry of failure. Avarice, lust or dishonesty are not on His agenda.
Who could follow a God that fails, for He would then be no god at all, and the follower would become no follower at all!
I will always have someone to follow, because He will never fail.