The Bullet of Success: Everyone Fails
I suppose the greatest sin we commit toward our fellow human beings is condemning them for isolated acts of failure. One of the most thrilling truths of the Gospel is that a man is not judged just for his mistakes but evaluated on his total life.
I am most remorseful at myself and others when we participate in that nauseous pursuit of fault-finding. Anyone can find fault! Only the purest personalities have the vision to see potential! Many demented, self-centered and narrow people are experts in making other wonderful human beings look bad. Illustration: How easy it would be to televise a basketball game and isolate on one player for the entire contest. You could take that hour of film and cut out all the good plays and make a ten-minute clip of his fouls, bad passes and missed shots.
The finest basketball player in America could be made to look bad with this method; however, if you viewed the full sixty minutes it would have been one of his best games!! It all depends on what you’re looking for!!
Babe Ruth struck out twice as many times as he got a hit, yet he was one of the outstanding baseball hitters of all time! Knowing how many times he missed is meaningless unless you also know baseball and how many times he got a hit!!! You can’t judge an athlete by the isolated bad plays but by the total game. You can never evaluate a person correctly based on his single bad acts without also viewing his multiple accomplishments for good.
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