Never too Big

 While we live on this earth, we as people never outgrow our capacity for failure. It is an intrinsic part of our humanity: our inability to perfect ourselves. That does not mean we do not try to do the impossible. Clutching at the bright strands of beauty and wealth and intellect given to us; trying to weave a garment of them to cover the nakedness of our imperfections. We grow till we believe failure is wholly behind us. Never more will we have to fear stumbling in this life because the false wealth we have created will cover all the bad we have ever done.
  So thought Israel. Hosea 12:8 says, "Ephraim boasts, "I am very rich; I have become wealthy. With all my wealth they will not find in me any iniquity of sin."" And so lived Israel, fooling themselves with a false image of goodness. Thinking by the might of their wealth they could trick both God and man into believing they were beyond sin. But wealth and the appearance of goodness cannot fool the all-knowing God. He saw through their wealth, through their false righteousness, and Israel fell because of their sin.
  There is no protection we as men can make to save us from the consequences of our sin. We will not, on this earth, outgrow our humanity. We are never too big to fail.