I press on toward the goal to win the prize.
—Philippians 3:14
Peter was slammed with a hurricane of emotions the night he denied Jesus: distress, dejection, disappointment. He was tormented and terrified. Before the night was over, he stumbled out of the courtyard brokenhearted. Devastated with grief over what he had done, he wept bitterly.
Peter could have gone over the edge and ended up like Judas. Why didn’t he? Because he had come-back courage.
And think about this! Judas could have weathered his storm and been among the greatest success stories in the Bible if he had owned up to his miserable mistake, asked for forgiveness—which would have been graciously given—and had the courage to try again.
The difference between the winner and the loser is that the loser accepts failure as final; the winner doesn’t.
The future is yours to win or lose.