God's workmanship! And yet such a failure!
"Well," you say, "I can't help myself. It comes natural to me. I can't be good."
Do you want to be good? To be what God means you to be?
I heard a preacher once say that at the Judgment Day when we shall all have to appear before our Maker, it may be that a picture will be held up before us, a picture of what God meant us to be when He made us and put us in this world. And as we look upon it, and think of what we might have been, and what we have been, we shall be filled with horror, and regret, and remorse. The contrast will condemn us so utterly!
How can we be a success instead of a failure?
If a watch or machine goes wrong, the best thing is to take it back to its maker. He will put it right, even if he has to make it over again.
Dear boys and girls, if you take yourself back to your Maker, and put yourselves in His hands to be made what He wants you to be, He will do it.
The fact is, we were never meant to live a single day in this world without God helping and holding us. The Lord Jesus Christ came to die for our sins, but He also came to show us how to live in this world with God holding our hands.
Kneel down in some quiet corner by yourself, and ask God to take your soul into His keeping and never let you go. You don't know what a difference it will make in your life. You will not be less happy, but much more happy. And He will be able to teach you and show you your work day by day.
And if you do it, you will bring glory instead of dishonour upon the One who made you.