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LIFE LESSONS

A church pastor once asked young men in the church to volunteer to sell new bibles in their neighbourhoods and raise some funds for the church. Three of them volunteered. Jack and Paul were professional salesman and so the pastor was glad. But Louis, was only a local farmer and he stammered too! However, not wanting to discourge him, the pastor sent them all off with a stock of bibles.

The following week, Jack proudly reported the sale of 20 bibles and Paul reported the sale of 28! The pastor was really impressed. When it was Louis turn, the pastor asked him, “Could you sell any at all?”. Louis handed him a packet, which the pastor discovered had proceeds of the sale of 320 bibles!

Everyone was shocked and couldn’t believe it. Jack and Paul suspected foul play and demanded and explanation for such high sales! After all they were professionals and Louis was only a farmer!

Louie shrugged and stammered and said, “Whh-e-en t-t-th-ey o-o-o-openned t-t-the d-d-do-door, a-a-a-all I-I s-s-said wa-was, w-w-would y-you l-l-like t-to b-b-buy th-th-this b-b-b-b-bible f-for t-t-ten b-b-b-bucks o-o-or- wo-would yo-you j-j-just l-like m-m-me t-to st-st-stand h-h-here and r-r-r-read it t-to y-y-you??”

How’s that? I take it as a life lesson in using our weakness to work better than our strength or rather, to work better than the strength of even others! Isn’t it much better to have strong weaknesses than to have weak strengths? It makes more sense to have efficient deficiencies and effective defects!

Everyone comes with his share of weaknesses. The difference is in the approach interpretation and life application. You need not cry and complain about the problems you have or the benefits you don’t have. You need not even boast about the problems you don’t have and the benefits you have. Because there certainly are times and occasions in our life when our weaknesses, problems or defects will function for our benefit and certainly other times when our strengths and advantages will work for our harm or disadvantage. Time and chance happen to everyone.

Often, it not what we’ve got that counts, but what we do with what we’ve got! Well done Louis.

Tags: , Bible, stammered, Strength, Weakness

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