Failure? (Tozer for Tuesday)

Failure sometimes is an evidence of the hand of God upon you, and we Christians can afford to fail because Jesus afforded to fail. He died out there on the cross, and it looked as if it was a battered tragic stupid end of a man who meant well but did not know how to handle Himself. On the third day, God raised Him from the dead and set Him at His own right hand and made Him to be head over all things to the Church and put all things under His feet, whether they be principalities, powers, or dominions, all are under His feet (see Eph. 1:19-23), and yet He died an apparent failure. Only “apparently,” for He was a roaring success before the world was created, and in this hour, and will be in all the worlds to come.—A.W. Tozer, Reclaiming Christianity, 203–4