Stumbling Over the Truth

     Almost anything you need you ca find these days on the internet.  Between Amazon, Google, Walmart.com, and e-Bay a person can have most anything delivered within a short amount of time.  As a society, we have so many resources at our finger tips, and just one click items can be shipped to your front door.  Countless volumes of information stand ready at our finger tips, which causes me to wonder how anyone could fail.  But the truth is that all these advantages don't equate to success.  You can't order success online.        Success isn't something to obtain or arrive at.  It isn't a destination, it's a derivative of the journey.  And what is even more frustrating is the the road of success is often paved with disappointments and setbacks that serve to extend the road not to block it.  Failure often leads us closer to success.  David put it this way in Psalm 37:23-24,     "The step...

     Yesterday I came home from work to find that my kitchen light wasn't working.  No big deal, except for the fact that today is my oldest son's birthday.  My wife was intending to make him a birthday cake, but with no light it was going to be challenging.  So we decided that the thing to do was to try new light bulbs and if that didn't work, replace the fixture.  This meant a trip to our local Lowes to get what was needed.  The unique light bulbs took a while to find and then we selected (after a few moments of debating price, color, size, etc.) a new light fixture and went home.        The easy and more inexpensive solution would have been the replacement light bulbs, but when we changed them out the light still did not work.  This meant changing out the fixture.  Though the box of the new light fixture assured me that this was a simple task that could be completed by one person but this proved to be not as s...