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Overcoming and achieving Overcoming and achieving
======================================================== To overcome: to get the better of; surmount difficulties; to gain the superiority; win, conquer. To achieve: to carry out successfully; to get or attain as the result of exertion; to reach a high degree of skill or greatness; to attain a desired end or aim; become successful -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Refining Influence of Suffering Afflictions by James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988) pp. 19-20. Some of the world's greatest men and women have been saddled with disabilities and adversities but have managed to overcome them. Cripple him, and you have a Sir Walter Scott. Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a John Bunyan. Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a George Washington. Raise him in abject poverty, and you have an Abraham Lincoln. Subject him to bitter religious prejudice, and you have a Benjamin Disraeli. Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he becomes a Franklin D. Roosevelt. Burn him so severely in a schoolhouse fire that the doctors say he will never walk again, and you have a Glenn Cunningham, who set a world's record in 1934 for running a mile in 4 minutes, 6.7 seconds. Deafen a genius composer, and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. Have him or her born black in a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker T. Washington, a Harriet Tubman, a Marian Anderson, or a George Washington Carver. Make him the first child to survive in a poor Italian family of eighteen children, and you have an Enrico Caruso. Have him born of parents who survived a Nazi concentration camp, paralyze him from the waist down when he is four, and you have an incomparable concert violinist, Itzhak Perlman. Call him a slow learner, "retarded," and write him off as ineducable, and you have an Albert Einstein. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- --verses to ponder-- Satisfy us in our earliest youth with your loving-kindness, giving us constant joy to the end of our lives. {15} Give us gladness in proportion to our former misery! Replace the evil years with good. {16} Let us see your miracles again; let our children see glorious things, the kind you used to do, {17} and let the Lord our God favor us and give us success. May he give permanence to all we do. Psa 90:14-17 (TLB) ------------------------------------------------------------------ These are the proverbs of King Solomon of Israel, David's son: {2} He wrote them to teach his people how to live-- and how to act in every circumstance, {3} for he wanted them to be understanding, just and fair in everything they did. {4} "I want to make the simpleminded wise!" he said. "I want to warn young men about some problems they will face. {5} I want those already wise to become the wiser and become leaders by exploring the depths of meaning in these nuggets of truth." {6} {7} How does a man become wise? The first step is to trust and reverence the Lord! Only fools refuse to be taught. {8} Listen to your father and mother. What you learn from them {9} will stand you in good stead; it will gain you many honors. Prov 1:1-9 (TheLivingBible) Jesus said, These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33 (KJV) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- IXTHEUS CHRISTIAN DEVOTIONALS ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE (but not necessarily free of COST) feel free to redistribute these materials to whomever you want... be careful to observe copyright information where appropriate... for questions, comments, help or suggestions, or subscriptions, contact us at ixtheus@execpc.com Visit my evangelistic presentation at... http://www.execpc.com/~ixtheus Submitted By: Ixtheus
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