Michael Jordan is arguably the best basketball player of all time. His name is a household word. And people pay big bucks to wear his name-brand shoes. Yet he talks about what he learned from his many "failures."

We, too, have many setbacks in life, many regrets. Sometimes we are on the brink of giving up. But our ultimate reward is everlasting and will not tarnish. That can motivate us to get back up and keep going. As the apostle Paul said, "Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize" (Philippians 3:13-14, New International Version).