compare the fern with the bamboo the fern you plant the seed and it's grown
up in a few weeks the fern is out there and the bamboo you plant the seed you
keep on watering it watering it watering it for first year you see nothing on the
surface has come out the second year again nothing has come out the third
year again nothing five years in succession nothing comes and then all of
a sudden the bamboo starts shooting out and within six months it has shot a
hundred feet so what was it doing for those five years you'd say it was doing
nothing it was deepening its roots because for it to rise a hundred feet it
needs such solid roots if the roots are not strong it's going to fall over like
the sequoia groves you know last year some of us we went to the Sequoia forest
now this requires a huge trees and if my chance thus acquired seed has fallen in
a place that's not strong enough after 200 years the tree falls over the roots
cannot sustain so the bamboo needs such strong roots it's going to shoot a
hundred feet up those five years it is strengthening its roots similarly God
wants us to reach that perfection it will take time and in this time there
will be mistakes there will be errors there will be times
when we fall never get discouraged see all these as opportunities to learn and
to progress the world may say you are a failure but
God will never say it so many things in this world were rejected as failures and
later on they became great successes we have a whole herd of Walt Disney's he
was such a failure that he was making some cartoons for some church and the
only place he had to stay was the rat infested place that is where he got the
idea of the rat cartoon we've heard of the author of Gone with the Wind when he
presented his manuscript to the publisher the publisher wrote on it
rejected and that became one of the biggest successful novels in history
we've heard when Alexander Graham Bell he made his telephone he presented it to
an investor that person said take the sky off my table
I am NOT interested we heard when Wilbur and Orville Smith they were trying to
create their aeroplanes three days before that in the New York Times there
was an article in the editorial these crazy people and their crazy machines
they are actually thinking that they will fly up in a machine impossible only
birds can fly and three days after that they succeeded so there is no such thing
as a failure it's a constant learning process