Failure Isn't Final. Harold Mawela

The Crucible of Your Calling Scripture: “But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.” (Job 23:10) A Prelude from Akasia I am writing to you from my veranda in Akasia, Pretoria. The winter chill is beginning to whisper across the Highveld, and as I sit here with my coffee now lukewarm, because I have been staring at the horizon for too long I hear the familiar hum of a taxi struggling up the hill. It coughs, sputters, and for a moment, I think it has died. But the driver does not give up. He revs again. The engine screams. And slowly, painfully, the vehicle conquers the incline. I smiled. Because that taxi is a sermon. My brother, my sister, you feel like that taxi, don’t you? You feel the weight of the passengers—responsibilities, debts, disappointments pressing down on your chassis. You hear the engine knocking. The world looks at you and says, “You are breaking down.” But God looks at you and says, “You are breaking through.” The Geography of ...